Three workers have been rescued and taken to hospital.
Ten employees they remained trapped yesterday Wednesday in a gallery mine coal after part of it collapsed in the northeast Mexicoannounced the authorities, who sent rescue crews to the area.
“Three miners already rescued” and “were taken to a hospital,” the Ministry of Security and Civil Protection said, adding that ten others are still trapped inside the mine.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador had initially spoken of nine people trapped after the mine collapsed and flooded yesterday afternoon.
“We hope to find them safe,” Mr. López Obrador said via Twitter, referring to the arrival of rescue crews.
“The government is mobilizing all the necessary means to carry out search and rescue operations,” assured the Ministry of Security and Citizen Protection.
The accident happened 1,130 kilometers north of the capital, in the municipality of Sabinas, in the state of Coahuila, in the area where Mexico’s largest coal deposits are located.
Family members of the workers rushed to the facility and were desperate for news of their loved ones. “I have two sons (s.s.: who work in the mine),” a mother told Milenio television. One of the two was able to get out of the gallery, she added, crying.
The coal mine began operating in January and until yesterday there had never been any reports of an anomaly, local authorities said.
In June 2021, seven miners died in an accident under similar conditions in the same state.
The worst such accident in the region occurred in 2006, when a gas explosion in a mine killed 65 workers.
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