Protesting Miners Lock Themselves in Mine With Explosives

Miners in Italy have stolen nearly eight hundred pounds of explosives and locked themselves deep down in their mine, near Cagliari.

As many as a hundred miners are staging their protest around thirteen hundred feet under ground.

They began the protest on Sunday night as an attempt to keep the government from closing the mine.

Some of the miners have been working there for over twenty-five years, and do not want to become unemployed.

They are asking the government to try to find a different use for it, even suggesting it be turned into a storage for pollutants.

The Carbosulcis mine has seen protests before, in 1995 miners stayed there for a hundred days to win their point.