With military divers and an aquatic drone they will try to rescue 10 miners trapped a week ago in Mexico

With divers and an underwater drone, the rescue forces will try to enter between this Wednesday and Thursday a mine in northern Mexico that was flooded a week ago with 10 workers inside.

The Mexican government has reported that there is a possibility that rescuers enter “anytime today” (for this Wednesday) to the mine in the north of the country which a week ago was flooded with 10 workers inside.

“All the rescuers are with the team to be able to enter,” said the national coordinator of Civil Protection, Laura Velázquez, during the usual press conference of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

Since the incident, the government has focused on extracting water from the mine to a level of approximately 1.5 meters, which allows rescuers to enter safely.

I work for evacuate the water they are carried out with the help of the miners’ relatives – some of them workmates – in the municipality of small needle (state of Coahuila, north).

With a temperature of 36 degrees Celsius and intense working days in towsigns of exhaustion of those volunteers are evident.

An aquatic drone

The government presented on Monday an aquatic drone through which they were observed obstacles that prevent the descent lifeguards through the sinkhole.

rescuers they dug wells to evacuate the water with motor pumps towards a ravine that flows into a river, and try the descent of military divers to look for miners, whose condition is unknown.

Monday’s report was not good. “There are no conditions for the entry of search and rescue corps. A large number of solid elements and turbulence have been observed,” explained the director of Civil Protection, Laura Velázquez.

The drone used by the Mexican authorities can reach depth up to 150 meters and is used in rescue operations, scientific explorations and inspections in the aquaculture sector.

“artisanal” extraction.

The mining that takes place in Agujita is mainly handcrafted. Workers usually descend through narrow, unreinforced wall cavities, unlike in industrial operations.

Injured miners opened a hole last Wednesday in an adjacent mine that was flooded. causing the water to overflow towards the sinkhole where they maneuvered.

The mine where the accident occurred is about 60 meters deep and is partially filled with cloudy water, according to images recorded with the drone and released Tuesday by the Civil Protection.

On Tuesday, the water level was found in the well through which divers would have entered in 16.4 metersaccording to a diagram of the Mexican army.

Accidents in the Coahuila mines happen regularly and this gave rise to them an investigation of the prosecution.

According to the governor of Coahuila, Miguel Riquelme, the warehouse managed by a private company I didn’t have the updated plans.

In June 2021, seven workers died after the collapse of another coal mine in Múzquiz.

The most serious mining accident in this region occurred on February 19, 2006, when a gas explosion in the Pasta de Conchos mine, controlled by the Grupo México conglomerate, caused the death ofand 65 workers. Only two bodies were recovered.

AFP