In Mexico, authorities to recover miners' bodies amid abandoned hopes for rescue

Mexico outlined a plan to search and recover the bodies of 10 coal miners trapped underground a month ago, an admission they're giving up on rescue efforts.

MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities on Monday outlined an 11-month plan to search for and recover the bodies of 10 coal miners trapped underground a month ago, a quiet admission that they are giving up on ambitions of rescuing the men alive.

The shift to a recovery comes after a tunnel wall collapsed and flooded the Pinabete mine in the northern border state of Coahuila on Aug. 3, triggering weeks of around-the-clock rescue efforts to pump water out of the mine and free the men. 

Manuel Bartlett, the head of national electricity company CFE, told reporters on Monday in a visit to the mine that a plan was underway to build an open pit mine to recover the miners’ bodies. read more

“We have the clear assignment from the president ... to start immediately, by the method of this open pit, to locate and rescue the bodies of the miners who lost their lives here,” Bartlett said.

On Sunday, Mexico’s attorney general’s office said it had obtained arrest warrants for three individuals it accused of “having allowed illegal coal exploitation activities” at the Pinabete mine.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/mexico-authorities-recover-miners-bodies-abandoned-hopes-rescue-rcna46420


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