Now the miners have to explain those mistresses

Must be quite a scene at the rescue area in Chile where the wives and mistresses of some of the trapped miners have been getting to know one another. Not happily, by all accounts. Perhaps the guys might want to hang out underground for another few days. From the Telegraph

Government officials are considering asking the 33 trapped miners to name those they want to claim the benefits entitled to them in a bid to solve problems on the surface. "There has been a lot of conflict between women," admitted Marta Flores a Red Cross worker at the makeshift camp where relatives wait for news of their loved ones. "We had a big bust up in the canteen tent when a wife came across a woman who claimed to be her husband's lover - we had to step in and pull them apart before things got physical." At stake are welfare packages issued to the families of the trapped miners as well as future compensation claims that could run into tens of thousands of pounds.