Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has called on rescuers to do "more" to rescue the ten miners trapped underground since August 3 in northeastern Mexico following the collapse and flooding of three coal pits.
Nearly 400 rescuers are mobilized to try to save the miners trapped at a depth of 60 m, half of which was flooded.
The emergency services use about twenty pumps.
But the water level is still too high for divers to descend.
Recurring incidents
The divers "said they didn't know when" they could go down, said Alicia Huerta, the sister-in-law of one of the trapped miners.
Experts also fear new infiltration from a nearby mine.
Sole producer of Mexican coal, the state of Coahuila is used to mining tragedies.
On February 19, 2006, 65 miners died when an underground gas pocket exploded in Pasta de Conchos.
Sixteen years later, 63 of the 65 bodies are still lying at the bottom of the mine.
Since then, families “demand measures” against accidents.
Calls still unheard.
