MEXICO CITY — Mexico will try to ship an aquatic drone right into a collapsed coal mine the place 10 miners have been trapped since final week.
Laura Velázquez, nationwide Civil Protection coordinator, stated Monday that pictures from the drone may assist authorities determine whether or not to ship in divers with out placing them in danger.
She additionally stated that 25 pumps have been working to take away water from the flooded shafts. Water that was as soon as 111 toes deep was now between 55 and 78 toes deep.
The mine in Sabinas, Coahuila about 70 miles southwest of Eagle Move, Texas, collapsed final Wednesday with 15 miners inside. 5 managed to flee with accidents. Authorities say the miners breached a neighboring house crammed with water. There was no contact with the remaining 10.
The miners’ households are determined and a few complained Sunday that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador gave them little data when he visited the location.
“I respect that he has come to take a photograph with my ache, the ache of my household and the ache of everybody of us right here,” stated Lucía Rodríguez, mom of one of many miners, in a video circulated on social media. “I hope that his images serve his coverage effectively.”
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The president stated that as a public servant you must be prepared “to at all times pay the tax of humiliation,” however that his conscience is obvious as a result of the rescue groups arrived to the location in two hours and have been working day and night time to rescue the miners.
The state and federal prosecutor’s places of work have opened investigations to find out these chargeable for the accident. Such small mines are sometimes the results of locals who get concessions after which contract groups of miners. Consultants say they seldom have the security plans and tools needed to cut back the danger of accidents.
In June and July of 2021, cave-ins at two Coahuila mines claimed the lives of 9 miners.
Mexico’s worst mining accident additionally occurred in Coahuila on Feb. 19, 2006, when an explosion ripped via the Pasta de Conchos mine whereas 73 miners have been inside. Eight have been rescued with accidents together with critical burns. The remaining died and solely two of their our bodies have been recovered.
López Obrador’s administration promised two years in the past to get well the remaining 63 our bodies, a extremely technical endeavor that has nonetheless not begun.
