A dozen miners have been trapped for a week in Mexico

The Mexican government announced this Tuesday that it will drill five new wells to draw water into the coal mine collapsed in Sabinas, Coahuila, in the north of the country, where 10 miners still trapped for almost a week.

“Currently, progress is being made with two wells in operation with a pumping of 100 horsepower each and three (more wells) in the process of being opened. Likewise, five more wells are planned to be drilled,” explained the national coordinator of Civil Protection of Mexico. , Laura Velázquez, in a videoconference from the place.

Velázquez said that they were fulfilled 134 hours of continuous worksince the collapse of this coal mine was recorded last Wednesday, without the conditions for the entry of search and rescue bodies yet.

In his daily conference from the National Palace, the Mexican president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador explained that the collapse was the result of the drilling a wall containing a large amount of stored water that flooded the mine. He added that five miners “luckily managed to get out almost expelled by the same flood.”

Five workers injured

According to Civil Protection data, there is an average extraction of 328 liters per second, while it detailed that 10.4 cubic meters of water remain to be extracted in well two, 11.3 meters in number three, and 16, 4 meters in the fourth water extraction well.

“We will be focused on lowering these water levels, with the idea that we can enter the underwater drone again and obviously that the rescuers can enter,” Velázquez added.

Likewise, he explained that there are 603 members of the Armed Forces and civilians in the northern Sabina mine with drilling, water pumping and rescue work.

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The collapse of the mine, from where only five workers managed to escape although they were injured, remember the tragic accidents that have occurred in Mexico in recent years.

According to the Pasta de Conchos Family, which brings together relatives of miners who died in the 2006 collapse in the mine of that name, also in Coahuila, there have been more than 100 deaths of people dedicated to mining in this coal area. since then.