US EditionA Miner Trapped in a Mine in Northwestern Mexico Has Been Found Alive. Two Miners Remain Missing.
Authorities said rescuers recovered one body and are still searching for a missing miner after a dam breach trapped four workers.
- On Wednesday, rescue teams brought Francisco Zapata to the surface after he remained trapped for nearly 14 days following a dam breach at the Rosario mine in Sinaloa.
- A structural failure caused a dam breach at the Rosario mine on March 25, trapping Zapata and three co-workers in flooded shafts below ground.
- Of the 25 miners present during the accident, 21 escaped immediately, while rescue teams worked for 21 hours to reach Zapata after locating him on Tuesday.
- Transported by the Mexican Air Force, Zapata was taken to a hospital in Mazatlán for specialized treatment following his rescue from the flooded mine shaft.
- Authorities confirmed one deceased miner was recovered and one remains missing from the Sinaloa disaster, marking a tragic outcome despite the successful rescue of Zapata.
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Mexican miner rescued after nearly 14 days in a flooded Sinaloa mine
Rescue teams rescued a miner trapped for 13 days after a collapse in Sinaloa, Mexico. President Claudia Sheinbaum confirmed on Wednesday a third miner has been found dead, while the search for another missing colleague continues.
Two of the three workers trapped in a Sinaloa mine were located, however, one of them was already lifeless.
Mexico City, 8 Apr (EFE).- Mexican authorities continue their efforts to rescue Francisco Zapata Nájera, one of the three workers who were trapped after a collapse in the Santa Fe mine, in the state of Sinaloa, since March 25 and who was located alive this Tuesday. According to a communiqué from the Unified Command, which integrates different security agencies and coordinates the rescue in the Santa Fe mine, located in the municipality of El Ros…
The 42-year-old miner Francisco Zapata Nájera, a worker of the Santa Fe Mine, was located alive by the authorities, reported Tuesday the Unified Command that coordinates the rescue activities in the installation that is located in El Rosario, Sinaloa. The official statement indicates that at 13.50 in the afternoon they managed to find the man originally from Durango.
After 312 hours of work, authorities reported that they were able to locate a second worker alive from the Santa Fe mine, Sinaloa; it is Francisco Zapata.Through a statement, the Unified Command that joined to rescue the 4 miners highlighted that once located, the worker was supplied with water, oxygen and food.However, the miner named Francisco Zapata has not yet been removed from the Santa Fe mine, so the maneuvers to secure his extraction are…
Miner found alive 13 days after mine collapse in northwestern Mexico
A miner has been found alive 13 days after a collapse at a mine in northwestern Mexico, in the second such rescue since the disaster trapped four workers underground. Two other miners remain missing. The collapse happened on March 25 at the Santa Fe mine in El Rosario, a town in Sinaloa state on Mexico’s Pacific coast. Officials said a failure involving a tailings dam sent muddy mining waste through the mine’s north and south access points, bloc…
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