The governor from Coahuila, Miguel Riquelmeacknowledged that nothing can be done to rescue trapped miners until the water is removed and a plug is applied to the filtration.
During his visit to the mine little needlethe president indicated that everything technically possible is being done to extract the water from the interior and that, fortunately, the volume.
“Logically, time is eating us,” said the governor.
The labors of bailing out are still in the area, where a team of experts works with bombs to suck the filtered water to the mine
“For us, the most important thing, from the first day, the first hours, the first minutes, is the rescue of the miners, we are working on it, technically every day there is a meeting, what the families require is information and about There is all psychological support, progress was made during the night and right now different options have been advanced by the rescue operation so that much more volume of water can be subtracted, “he said.
Riquelme Solis added that in the wells there is a enough capacity of extraction and insisted that other types of techniques are carried out to prevent the water from returning to the mine.
“We hope in God to find them alive, that they are in some air bubble, that they have been able to protect themselves, I do not want to get into that issue because right now the families are sensitive, that is why I want to be very cautious in my terms but if I tell you that the progress in the organization is working,” he said.
Earlier, the president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador He assured that this Saturday would be a decisive day because it would be known “if there is a possibility that the divers enter without risk.”
In a post on his account Twitterthe president indicated that he continues working day and night in the rescue of the miners.
“The main problem is the flooding, although the pumping equipment is sufficient and of the highest capacity,” he said.
The miners have been incommunicado since Wednesday at 1:35 p.m. local time, when Sabinas residents reported the collapse of a coal mine in the community of the shellsin the place of little needlewhere there are at least 383 members of rescue teams, between military and civilians.
After the collapse of the mine, only five miners managed to escape although they were injured.
According to the Pasta de Conchos Family, which brings together relatives of miners who died in the 2006 collapse, also in Coahuila, there have been more than 100 deaths of people dedicated to mining in this coal zone since then.
The most recent accident in a mine occurred in June 2021, in the municipality of Muzquiz, Coahuilawhen a flood caused the roof and walls of the mine to rupture, causing the place to collapse, inside which seven miners were trapped and died.
With information from López-Dóriga Digital and EFE