65 Trapped Miners Are Dead, Company Says
From Times Wire Reports
The 65 men trapped by a Mexican coal mine explosion for six days cannot possibly have survived their ordeal underground and are all dead, the mine owner said.
The Grupo Mexico said that although no bodies had been found, tests showed there was almost no oxygen inside the mine’s shafts and tunnels and no hope of finding survivors.
An explosion of methane gas and coal Feb. 19 dust tore throughout the Pasta de Conchos mine in Mexico’s northern state of Coahuila, trapping the night shift workers.
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