Mexican search teams have recovered the bodies of all 14 coal mine workers killed in a gas explosion in northern Mexico, the country’s Labor Secretary Javier Lozano said Sunday.
“At 1:35 a.m. on Sunday, the last miner from Tuesday’s accident was recovered here in Sabinas,” Lozano said in a Twitter post in Spanish early Sunday morning. “Mission accomplished.”
Rescuers started searching for survivors in the mine outside Sabinas, Mexico’s coal production center, on Tuesday, when a blast injured one worker and trapped 14 of his colleagues inside.
In 2006, 65 miners died in the nearby town of San Juan de Sabinas following a mine explosion.
Lozano told reporters on Sunday that the Mexican government will step up its inspections of mines in the area in the wake of the most recent explosion, according to CNN.
“I have no doubt that the area of Coahuila coal will be different after this tragedy,” the labor secretary Tweeted Sunday evening. “The miners’ deaths are not in vain.”
“At 1:35 a.m. on Sunday, the last miner from Tuesday’s accident was recovered here in Sabinas,” Lozano said in a Twitter post in Spanish early Sunday morning. “Mission accomplished.”
Rescuers started searching for survivors in the mine outside Sabinas, Mexico’s coal production center, on Tuesday, when a blast injured one worker and trapped 14 of his colleagues inside.
In 2006, 65 miners died in the nearby town of San Juan de Sabinas following a mine explosion.
Lozano told reporters on Sunday that the Mexican government will step up its inspections of mines in the area in the wake of the most recent explosion, according to CNN.
“I have no doubt that the area of Coahuila coal will be different after this tragedy,” the labor secretary Tweeted Sunday evening. “The miners’ deaths are not in vain.”
