Leopoldo Ramos
Correspondent
The newspaper La Jornada
Friday, August 30, 2024, p. 12
Sabinas, Coah., The Attorney General’s Office of the State of Coahuila reported that the fifth of the 10 miners trapped in the El Pinabete coal mine was recovered and confirmed the discovery of bone remains of the sixth worker.
On August 3, 2022, a flood at the site left 10 workers under tons of earth and water.
The delegate of the prosecutor’s office in the coal region, Ulises Ramírez Guillén, reported that on Wednesday the visualization of biological remains
three meters from where the fifth worker was found.
The sighting of the sixth miner has been confirmed and we are working on its recovery. It is necessary to reinforce the GWE11 gallery.
explained Ramírez Guillén.
He added that the whereabouts of the sixth person are about three meters from where the previous one was located. We need a safe area for the experts who are working inside the site. The risk is latent and we require that the safety conditions be met in order to recover this sixth body.
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Rescue efforts have been complicated by the difficult conditions inside the mine, where the risk of collapses and further flooding persists, the official said.
