SANTIAGO (Reuters) -All five trapped workers at Codelco's El Teniente copper mine have been found dead, a regional prosecutor said on Sunday, after rescue teams cleared more than two dozen meters (78 feet) of underground passages that collapsed in a strong tremor last week.

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.

Rescuers in Chile are racing to find the last worker trapped in the world's largest underground copper mine after an earthquake on Thursday. The state-owned Codelco company said on Sunday that five workers were now known to have died since the collapse of its El Teniente mine, about 70km (43 miles) south-east of the capital Santiago.