6 Die in Failed Rescue in a Water Well in Oaxaca · Global Voices

Six people died and one more survived in an attempt to rescue a water well in Tezoatl n de Segura y Luna, Oaxaca.

Six people died inside a well in a town in Oaxaca after being exposed to lethal gases and to the water accumulated in the bottom after having gone down inside the victims were two local police officers. The State Coordinator for Civil Protection and Risk Management of the municipality of Tezoatlán de Segura y Luna, in the Mixtec region, Manuel Maza Sánchez, confirmed that the deaths were due to the inhalation of dioxide and carbon monoxide, as w…

A rescue attempt ended in tragedy on the night of Monday, April 21, in Tezoatlán de Segura y Luna, Oaxaca, where six people died inside a water well approximately 25 meters deep. According to the authorities’ report, the accident occurred when a worker fell inside the well while doing maintenance work. Seeing what happened, his son, in the company of several compañeros and municipal police officers, entered one after the other to try to rescue h…

Six people lost their lives when they entered a well in the municipality of Tezoatlán de Segura y Luna, located in the Mixteca region of Oaxaca when they were doing desazolve work. A father of family identified as Pedro Ortega Girón, 53 years old, entered at the first moment to provide maintenance, since due to the storm, the aquifers lowered their level. To this end, he occupied a petrol pump, which did not have control of the emission of toxic…

Yesterday, April 21, 2025, personnel of Firefighters of the State of Oaxaca moved towards the El Mirador Santa Catarina Yutandu road, in the municipality of the Heroica Villa de Tezoatlán de Segura y Luna, Huajuapan de León, to carry out a risky rescue inside a well contaminated by toxic gases. You may be interested: VIDEO: Subjects tied a puppy to the back of a moving car How was the rescue of five people carried out in a well in Oaxaca? The se…

A family father and his two children are presumed to have fallen into the well and, in attempting to rescue them, local municipal police officers were also trapped.