The Associated PressIn this photo taken on Sunday, Jan. 20, 2019, drill and excavating machinery work on top of the mountain next to a deep borehole to reach a 2-year-old boy trapped there for six days near the town of Totalan in Malaga, Spain. Spanish officials say rescuers are making slow progress in exceptionally difficult conditions to reach a 2-year-old boy who fell into a narrow, deep borehole in the countryside eight days ago. (Alex Zea/Europa Press via AP)
Spanish mine rescue experts are being lowered down a deep shaft from where they hope to dig a tunnel to reach a 2-year-old boy trapped underground for 11 days.
Authorities have struggled to recover Julen Rosello after he fell down a narrow, 110-meter (360-foot) deep borehole in the southern Spanish countryside on Jan. 13.
The only sign of the toddler found inside the hole so far is hair that matched his DNA .
Officials said a purpose-built cage was used Thursday to take the miners down a shaft that has been drilled parallel to the borehole.
The rescuers estimate they will need up to 24 hours to dig the 4-meter (13-foot) tunnel to where they believe the boy is.