The increase in the water levels of the wells of the El Pinabete de Sabinas mine complicates the rescue of the 10 miners who have been trapped for 11 days. The family of the workers asks for the support of foreign rescuers.
The increase in water levels in the wells of the El Pinabete mine in Sabinas, Coahuila, in northern Mexico, has complicated the entry and rescue of the 10 miners who have been trapped for 11 days, according to local authorities.
The National Coordination of Civil Protection (CNPC) of the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC), reported this Sunday that in the last hours “The water levels in wells two, three and four of the El Pinabete mine increased to 10.44 meters.”
The reduction of the water level inside the coal mine is the main objective of the authorities to try to rescue the 10 workers who remain trapped since August 3.
Faced with this scenario, specialists from the Mexican Geological Survey of the Ministry of Economy and the company Mimosa devise a strategy to prevent further growth, and generate conditions to rescue the miners.
Meanwhile, the head of the CNPC, Laura Velázquez, told the relatives of the miners who work for their rescue after they requested the intervention of foreign rescuers on Saturday and will criticize the slowness of the Mexican specialists in the rescue work.
“Make it clear to the relatives that we are not going to abandon them, neither them nor the trapped miners. We share the anguish that they suffer, and know that we are not sparing any resources to achieve the purpose,” said Velázquez.
He stressed that the Civil Protection system in Mexico is one of the most experienced in the world, due to the fact that the country is one of the most vulnerable to natural phenomena.
In addition, he asked the relatives “to have the confidence that we have the necessary knowledge and the tools to deal with the emergency.”
Velázquez explained that in the El Pinabete mine they face “extraordinary conditions” due to its adjoining, to the south, with the Conchas Norte mine, which was abandoned approximately 30 years ago.
“During that period, it accumulated a very high volume and that will be determined when more information is available,” he explained.
According to records, the Conchas Norte mine is 100 times larger than El Pinabete, since it comprises 1.8 hectares and the Conchas Norte mine has 180 hectares.
Mining families call for foreign rescuers
On Saturday, when the miners had been trapped for 10 days, their relatives, at a press conference outside the mine, They asked for the help and intervention of foreign rescuers and criticized the actions of the Mexican specialists.
“If they can’t, we want help from another party (foreign),” said one of the wives of the miners, who also demanded a new appearance at the site of the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
This Sunday, the Mexican Catholic Church called on the mining industry to guarantee the necessary security and dignity measures for the miners, who, it said, are part of the forgotten workers in this country.
“We have become accustomed to not demanding the name and dignity of those brothers who work in the mines and in other trades that we do not usually look at,” said the Archdiocese of Mexico in its editorial in the weekly “From Faith” on this day. .
The collapse reactivated the controversy in Mexico over the actions of mining companies in the coal region, where more than 100 deaths of people dedicated to mining have been recorded, according to the Pasta de Conchos Family, which brings together relatives of those who died in the 2006 collapse at the mine of that name.