They saved the body of one of the miners trapped in Múzquiz, Coahuila

One of the miners who got trapped in the coal mine located in the municipality of Múzquiz, he was saved lifeless, That’s how they made it known a few moments ago, Milénio TV Yes tv hole.

The body of Mauricio Cortés, who had a little more than two weeks after entering the workplace, was rescued this Saturday morning, some of the parents of the minors have reported.

The authorities in Coahuila are working tirelessly to extract the water that caused the flooding and collapse of a coal mine located in the municipality of Múzquiz and in which at least six other workers are trapped, some 60 meters from depth.

They clarified that 4 submersible pumps are used to extract water and save the miners alive, while 143 elements of the Secretariat of National Defense and the National Guard, as well as elements of the Federal Civil Protection and Nuevo León collaborate. also to rescue and security. work in the region.

On Friday afternoon, Governor Miguel Ángel Riquelme said that it was likely that the miners could be sheltered in one of the tunnels found in the mine, so, he said, they could be saved alive.

“Inside (the mine) there are tunnels that could have been sheltered. Hope this happened “he told the media on Friday.

Hours after the crash, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador reported that seven miners were trapped after the collapse.

“I received the information that in Múzquiz, Coahuila, seven workers had been trapped in a mine by the discharge of a water dam”, he expressed on his social networks.

He later noted: “We are attentive and in coordination with municipal and state authorities. We want the rescue to be good for families and for everyone ”.

The mine is located in the community of Las Rancherías, in the municipality of Múzquiz, in the north of the state, where relatives arrived who requested the rescue of the trapped men, identified as:

–Mauricio Cortes (originally from the ejido La Cuchilla). His body has already been found this Saturday.

–Humberto Rodriguez Rios, 40 years old (from ejido La Mota).

–Damian Ernesto Robles Arias, 27 years old (resident of the ejido of Las Rancherías).

–Gonzalo Cruz Marin, 53 years old (from the ejido of Las Rancherías).

–Leopoldo Méndez Sánchez, 24 years old (from ejido La Mota).

–Francisco Briseño, better known as “Chicano”, 24 years old.

–Pedro Ramírez.

About the causes of the drama, the governor noted that a pit on the side of the mine caught rainwater, causing the walls and roof of the mine to collapse.

On the irregularities that had already been reported previously, the governor of Coahuila explained that “An inspection was done on October 20, 2020 and the mine was restricted; however, once the measures were respected, according to federal inspection reports, the restriction was lifted “, said in an interview for Azucena Uresti in Formula group.

According to the weekly Treat, when the director of the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE), Manuel Bartlett Díaz, visited the Pasta de Conchos mine accompanying the president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the last week of October of last year; members of the family organization Pasta de Conchos (OFPC) gave him a letter in hand, with photographs of the dangerous conditions in the operation of the coal mine collapsed this Friday May 4 and they asked Bartlett for a meeting to present the case, which never happened.

According to journalistic versions, the mine is owned by Gerardo Nájera, who apparently does not have a trade name, from the municipality of Sabinas.

The Mineral de Rancherías ejido has one of the lowest population rates in the country, with only 597 inhabitants; It is located 15 kilometers from Ciudad Melchor Múzquiz and 6 kilometers from Paláu.

It is characterized by the economic activity of mining, followed by livestock and agriculture. The houses are, for the most part, built at the beginning and in the middle of the 20th century and have the particularity of being able to be moved from place by means of steel rollers which are mounted on the bottom.

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