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Reuters
Reuters
Environment
By Luis Cortes and Daina Beth Solomon

'Time against us' in bid to rescue 10 Mexican miners after 3 days underground

Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador speaks with people as he visits a coal mine that collapsed leaving miners trapped in Sabinas, Coahuila state, Mexico August 7, 2022. Mexico Presidency/Handout via REUTERS

Large pumps sucked water from a flooded coal mine in Mexico on Saturday as authorities weighed whether to send divers to try to save 10 miners who have been trapped underground for more than three days.

The miners became trapped at a mine in the northern border state of Coahuila on Wednesday afternoon when their excavation work caused a tunnel wall to collapse, triggering flooding in three wells.

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