Authorities said on Thursday (11) that rescue forces continued to face adverse conditions that prevented them from entering the mine in northern Mexico, where ten workers were stranded for eight days.
“They saw that they had nowhere to go forward, there were obstacles, there was wood,” Defense Minister Luis Cresensio Sandoval said after four landings on Wednesday in one of the wells where they were trying to access the flood waters. shaft.
However, the general, who attended President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s morning conference, said “the activities will continue, divers will continue their entry attempts.”
Hundreds of soldiers and other rescuers join the rescue operation at the El Pinabete coal mine in the city of Agujita in Coahuila province, where a flood left 10 miners stranded on Wednesday (3).
A soldier and a volunteer miner took a short dive Wednesday afternoon, trying to determine if conditions were right for military divers to enter the narrow hole.
However, Sandoval insisted that “even with the lights they carry to be able to observe inside (they detected it) they do not have the visibility necessary to identify what was found”.
However, he drew attention to the fact that the water level in the three wells where the workers were intended to be evacuated continued to decrease thanks to the evacuation by motor pumps.
One of the sinkholes is already 4.9 meters from the 30 meters of water present the day after the accident, although the level considered ideal for rescue is 1.5 meters.
“We hope that today we will be able to reach levels where first responders can enter in well 2,” National Civil Protection Coordinator Laura Velázquez said at the presidential conference. said.
“We’ll be evaluating all day long. We have to be careful not to expose anyone,” he added.
According to the government, the incident occurred when a coal mining team drilled a hole in a flooded mine, causing water to overflow where they were maneuvering.
source: Noticias
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