The workers’ families are “desperate” after hearing about the plan presented by the government to get them out of the hole
The rescue efforts continue for the ten workers who were trapped in a mine in Mexico three weeks ago, on the 3rd, with no contact underground, without water or food and, at best, dependent on air reserves from an underground pocket. The emergency teams have since worked constantly to reach the workers, who are at a depth of 34 meters, but the work has so far been unsuccessful. And it doesn’t look like they will be able to leave in the near future. The Aztec government presented a plan to the families of the missing on Thursday, stating that the rescue could take “six to 11 months”.
The next of kin are shocked by the news. “They tell us it would take six to 11 months to get them out. We are desperate, we don’t know what to do, we can’t accept this,” Juani Cabriales, sister of one of the miners trapped in the Coahuila mine, told AFP. Not satisfied with the words they received from Laura Velázquez, the National Coordinator of Civil Defense, asked the families to resign, according to the newspaper ‘El sol de México’.
A week ago, Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s director met with US companies Phoenix First Response and German DMT to discuss rescue strategies. According to Velázquez, the German specialists concluded that rescuers need to identify where the water that has kept the mine submerged for three weeks is entering and preventing emergency services from entering. “There was also a fluke in sealing the water inlets, as planned, and also in continuing the studies of the Sabinas River and possible rain leaks,” he added.
This meeting took place four days after relatives of the ten miners blamed the government for doing nothing. María Montelongo, the sister of one of the underground workers, has made it clear that she will not leave until her brother is removed and has sued the authorities that allow these types of accidents to take place in the wells.
Source: La Verdad
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