By EFE
Jun 12, 2024, 18:50 PM EDT
The Mexican Government reported this Wednesday the discovery of lThe first human remains after the collapse of the Pasta de Conchos mine in 2006in the northern state of Coahuila, after almost two decades of the accident in which 65 workers died.
In a statement, the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) stated that The discovery occurred after four years of rescue work, ordered by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, after which they reached a point where the logs indicated the area in which the miners were working on the day of the accident.
He noted that, in addition to the undetailed human remains, they also located various work objects.
Likewise, the information note indicated that they did not identify that, at that point in the mine, where the remains appeared, an explosion had taken place “as indicated at the time by the corresponding authorities.”
And he stated that, for the moment, The conditions of the galleries located in different parts of the mine are unknown.
Likewise, he pointed out that, from now on, the Attorney General’s Office of the State of Coahuila, the National Search Commission (CNB) and the National Institute of Genomic Medicine (Inmegen), will begin with the protocols to identify the remains, “thus as with the expert reports that allow determining the causes of the accident.”
The rescue of the bodies of the miners who They were trapped on February 19, 2006, it was one of the promises of the López Obrador Governmentwho will leave office on October 1.
To do this, in 2019 the president formed a group of experts from Mexico, Germany, China, the United States and Australia, who unanimously determined the viability of the rescue.
But in July 2020 it was announced that the rescue would remain in the hands of the CFE, a measure with which the families never agreed given the lack of experience of this public company in rescues or in coal mines.
On February 19, 2006, 65 workers died in the accident at the Pasta de Conchos mine and only two bodies were recovered, the rest were buried because their rescue was considered high risk.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) announced in 2018 the evaluation of the responsibility of the Mexican authorities in the deaths of the 65 miners, eight years after the relatives brought the case.
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