New Zealand families want miners

The grieving families of 29 men killed in a New Zealand mine explosion 18 months ago vowed Friday to battle for the bodies to be returned after the new mine possessor revealed no recovery was planned.
Solid Energy, which is buying the Pike River Coal mine, said it would not put more lives at risk trying to bring out the dead men.
"The only safe, |possible and credible option for recovering the men's bodies will be as part of a future commercial mining operation. This will take some years to produce and implement," Solid Energy chief executive Don Elder said.
The families of the miners -- 24 New Zealanders, two Australians, two Britons and a South African -- were irate after Elder told them there was but a five to 10 percent likeliness of a winning recovery.