(Mexico City) At least nine miners were stranded in a shaft of a coal mine in northern Mexico on Wednesday after it collapsed, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said.
Posted at 9:20 p.m.
“At 1:35 p.m. (2:35 p.m. ET), a collapse was reported at a coal mine in the municipality of Sabinas in the state of Coahuila, which caused the pit to flood, where , nine minors,” the Mexican head of state wrote on Twitter.
“We hope to find them safe and sound,” added Mr. Lopez Obrador, adding that help was on the scene, including 92 members of the National Guard.
Relatives of the miners gathered near the mine, praying. “I have two sons (who work in the mine),” testified a mother to the Milenio television channel, without giving her name. One of the two was able to escape the collapse, she added in tears.
The site of the accident is 1130 km north of Mexico City in the state of Coahuila, the main carboniferous zone of Mexico.
In June 2021, seven miners died in the collapse of another coal mine in that same state.
The most serious accident in this region took place in 2006, when a gas explosion in a mine killed 65 people.