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Conditions at the mine in northern Mexico, where 10 miners are trapped, were not right for search and rescue teams to enter Monday, Laura Velázquez, Mexico's national coordinator for Civil Protection, said in a statement. a press conference on Tuesday.
Regarding the drone dive that was carried out to assess the conditions, Velázquez said: "In the process of preparing for the team to enter hole number four, piles of wood were found, due to which the drone dive could not be carried out. team members."
"Therefore, it was decided to try it in well number three, where a video recording was made from the surface. Contact was made with the water and it was determined that the conditions were not suitable for the entry of the search and rescue teams" , he added.
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Velásquez explained that they found many obstructions in shaft number three, so the team was unable to enter the mine.
"Today we will continue pumping from each of the wells."
Civil Protection said that there are 10.4 meters of water left to be pumped from well number one;
11.3 meters in hole number two;
27.3 meters in the relief well, and 16.4 meters in well number three, before the water is at levels that allow rescuers to enter to rescue the miners safely.
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"Today we will be focused on lowering these water levels with the idea that we can submerge the drone again and obviously that the rescuers can come in to clean, remove all obstacles and descend as soon as possible to rescue the miners," Velásquez said. in a video call during the presidential briefing.
Government agencies said they have deployed 603 people to the scene to help with rescue efforts.
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"We can already think that tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow, the depth of the water will be one and a half meters, and divers and rescuers will be able to enter," Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said, speaking Tuesday at his usual briefing. daily.
This happened two days after he visited the site of the ongoing rescue operation.
Velasquez said crews have worked for 134 continuous hours since the 10 miners were trapped in a flooded coal mine in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila.
The 10 miners have been trapped since last week in the Sabinas mine, located in the state of Coahuila, in the north of the country.
The authorities have managed to rescue five people.
The incident took place in Villa de Agujita, about 300 kilometers north of the state capital, Saltillo, and about 120 kilometers from the border with the United States.
Sabinas is part of the so-called Carboniferous Region of the area due to its coal mines.
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