Rescue teams had been searching for the trapped workers for days after the partial collapse of El Teniente, one of the world’s largest copper mines.

The bodies of all five miners trapped in a collapsed shaft in the world's biggest underground copper mine for three days have been found and identified, an official said Sunday. Aquiles Cubillos, the lead prosecutor in Chile's O'Higgins region,

The accident, which took place on Thursday, was caused by one of the largest tremors ever recorded at El Teniente, with the impact of a 4.2 magnitude quake.