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This was stated on Monday by the Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador analyzes the help of international rescue teams, if necessary, remove the 10 workers trapped in the Sabina mine in the northern state of Coahuila.
Anything that needs to be done to get the miners out is not ruled out (help from international rescuers). And the family is right, they love their relatives, she commented in her daily morning lecture.
Relatives of the trapped miners the El Pinabete minecollapsed after the flood on August 3, this Saturday asked for the help of international rescue teams, who denounced the slowness of the Mexican authorities.
According to the national coordinator of the Civil Protection in Mexico, Laura Velázquez, the Mexican government adopts a new plan to rescue the 10 miners trapped in Pinabete, after a flood in the adjacent abandoned mine that complicated the rescue scheduled last weekend.
Velázquez explained that rescuers were preparing to enter the bodies of the miners trapped in the city of Agujita, after having reduced the water level inside, but a new flood occurred which made rescue operations difficult.
And that is where we are and if it is deemed necessary, it is seen (calls for international help) and rescuers are brought from anywhere in the world, commented López Obrador.
He said the procedures to request international aid from the rescue teams they wouldn’t be difficult.
“Fortunately, we have good relations with the governments of the world and can carry out these procedures,” he said.
The water that is extracted from the mine, in the Agujita region of Coahuila. Photo: Reuters
López Obrador made it clear that before asking for help you have to “see if it is necessary”, “if the strategy you are pursuing will work”.
The new plan, as described by the national coordinator of Civil Protection, provides continue with the permanent pumping of water, identify areas with holes or gaps, drill 20 6-inch holes to a depth of 60 meters in the abandoned Conchas Norte mine, and inject concrete to create a barrier that prevents the passage of water between the mines.
The idea is that army divers can enter and remove miners, of which absolutely unknown nothing since the mine flooded them over 10 days ago.
Rescuers also work with aquatic drone to determine if the conditions exist for the descent of divers.
The landslide that left miners trapped and underwater has reactivated controversy in Mexico over the actions of miners in the coal region, where they registered over 100 dead of people engaged in mining, according to the Pasta de Conchos Family, which brings together the relatives of those who died in the 2006 collapse in the mine of the same name.
EFE
Source: Clarin
