Six to 11 months before the minors are found, families say they are ‘desperate’
They have no evidence of miners’ lives underground since August 3. The authorities have never mentioned their deaths and say they continue to carry out rescue operations, even if a fatal outcome appears inevitable.
“We are desperate. We don’t know what to do. We can’t accept this,” the sister of a miner trapped underground at the El Pinabete mine in Coahuila state said. We had hoped it would take a month. But almost a year is not possible. Another missing.
Three options
The families had just met the head of the Civil Protection, Laura Velasquez, who explained them the authorities’ plan.
La stratégie proposée by Laura Velázquez comprend trois « options » qui sont en cours d’évaluation, dont l’une consiste à ouvrir un tunnel avec des « rampes d’accès inclinées » pour atteindre les galeries de la page mine, en plus du pom water. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced Thursday that the plan would be submitted to family members for approval, before it was presented publicly on Friday.
Five workers managed to get out but ten are missing.
The original plan was to pump water into the mine to let in divers and rescue workers. But the level suddenly rose. The Mexican government has requested assistance from American and German companies to assist with relief operations.
The state of Coahuila provides nearly all of the coal that Mexico produces, most of the time under precarious security conditions for the miners.
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