The FGR stated that for the identification it had the collaboration of the National Institute of Genomic Medicine (Inmegen), an institution that processed the genetic material of the recovered remains and carried out the due comparison with the DNA samples that relatives of all the victims provided to said institute.
Following the identification, the Prosecutor’s Office will formally begin the process of handing over the remains to the family of the identified miner.
The Mexican government has pledged to provide support to the Ordóñez Martínez family.
The authorities said that rescue efforts led by the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) continue in the damaged tunnel that can be accessed in Pasta de Conchos.
The Mexican government also stressed that preliminary works are ongoing in two more galleries, where there is hope of making new discoveries.
One of the commitments of the Government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador was to find the victims of Pasta de Conchos.
In June, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Mexico’s virtual president, Claudia Sheinbaum, pledged to rescue the remains of the 63 miners who were trapped in 2006 in the Pasta de Conchos mine in San Juan de Sabinas, Coahuila, either during the remainder of this administration or during the next one.
Speaking at the presentation of the Justice Plan for Pasta de Conchos, the virtual president of Mexico promised that if all the remains of the miners are not rescued during the remainder of López Obrador’s six-year term, they will be done during his government.
