More than 500 rescuers are trying to save ten miners trapped 60 meters underground after a mine wall collapsed in Mexico.
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Trapped 60 meters underground for six days. In Mexico, the wall of a coal mine in the locality of Sabinas, in the north of the country, collapsed on Wednesday August 3. The rockslide caused flooding and pinned down the miners working there. Ten men are now blocked.
More than 500 rescue workers are working to extract water from the mine using around twenty pumps. But the rescue is progressing hardly 😀Filtrations complicate operations to lower the water level and stranded miners cannot communicate with the surface. According to some, this mine should never have been exploited, for lack of meeting the minimum safety conditions and theThe pits near those where the miners worked were themselves already flooded.
The families of the miners are not giving up on the idea of seeing them again. In this carboniferous region of Mexico, extraordinary and unexpected rescues after this type of accident are frequent. For their loved ones, there is only one hope: that the ten missing miners have found refuge in an air bubble.
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