US EditionMexican miner rescued after nearly 14 days in a flooded Sinaloa mine
Rescuers used pumps and divers to reach Francisco Zapata Nájera after 300 hours underground, while one miner remains missing and another was found dead.
- On Wednesday, rescuers pulled miner Francisco Zapata from the flooded Rosario mine in Sinaloa after he remained trapped for nearly 14 days following a dam breach.
- Structural failure at the mine trapped four workers during the accident; 21 of the 25 miners present escaped immediately while authorities confirmed one died and one remains missing.
- Divers located Zapata at 300 meters depth, but flooded conditions delayed extraction for 21 hours; a Mexican Air Force helicopter transported him to a Mazatlán hospital.
- Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum confirmed the rescue, explaining that teams waited for water levels to recede before completing extraction; authorities continue searching for the missing worker.
- This incident recalls Mexico's deadliest mining accident in February 2006 at the Pasta and Conchos mine in Coahuila, where an explosion killed 65 workers, highlighting ongoing safety risks.
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“I did not lose faith,” those were the words that Francisco Zapata Nájera spoke before Army divers began maneuvers to rescue the worker, who remained trapped inside the Santa Fe mine, in El Rosario, Sinaloa, for more than 300 hours. The Defense Secretariat spread on social networks the first contact that the worker of the Santa Fe mine had with members of the Army, who located him on Tuesday, April 7, around 1:00 p.m. The images show the shirtle…
Sinaloa mine collapse: Second miner rescued, third found dead, fourth still missing
Nearly two weeks after a mine collapsed in the northwestern state of Sinaloa, a second miner has been rescued, while authorities confirmed that the body of a third was discovered. Efforts continue to locate a fourth miner, who has been trapped since March 25. Francisco Zapata Nájera, 42, was pulled from the Santa Fe mine in the municipality of Rosario before dawn on Wednesday morning. He was located at a depth of 300 meters surrounded by large q…
Miner in Mexico Survives 14 Days Underground in Flooded Tunnel
A mine in the northern state of Sinaloa, Mexico. Credit: Erasmo Perez / Flickr / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 A miner in northern Mexico survived 14 days trapped in a flooded underground tunnel before being rescued by military divers, in a dramatic operation that drew national attention. Francisco Zapata Nájera, 42, was found about 300 meters (985 feet) below ground in a gold mine in the state of Sinaloa. He became trapped after an embankment collapsed, send…
Four workers were trapped on March 25, and two of them have been rescued alive after almost two weeks.
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