SANTIAGO, Chile — A congressional commission found two mine owners responsible yesterday for the accident that trapped 33 men a half-mile underground for 69 days last year.
The commission’s report, which is expected to be approved by Chile’s lower house today, said members unanimously found Alejandro Bohn and Marcelo Kemeny responsible for the collapse that trapped the men deep inside the San Jose mine, whose veins of copper and gold had been pursued for more than 100 years in poorly reinforced tunnels under the Atacama desert in northern Chile.
