Mexican authorities recover the body of a miner trapped in a Sinaloa gold mine collapse
Authorities said 21 of 25 workers escaped the mine, while rescue teams later recovered another miner’s body after weeks of pumping out floodwater.
- On Monday, Mexican authorities located the body of a miner in Sinaloa, concluding the search for the final worker trapped after the March 25 gold mine collapse.
- Of the 25 people working in the mine during the collapse, 21 escaped on their own, while four remained trapped in the disaster.
- The National Civil Protection Coordination recovered the body of 54-year-old Leandro Isidro Beltrán Reséndiz early Monday, following weeks of failed attempts to pump water and stabilize the mine shaft.
- This incident recalls Mexico's deadliest mining accident in February 2006 at the Pasta de Conchos mine in Coahuila, where an explosion killed 65 workers.
- The 2022 flooding of the Pinabete coal mine in Coahuila previously exposed gaps in safety protections and official supervision affecting many Mexican laborers.
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The Unified Command that heads the search effort in the Santa Fe mine, located in the municipality of El Rosario, Sinaloa, located yesterday without life the miner Leandro Isidro Beltrán Reséndiz, 54 years old and originally from Zimapán, Hidalgo.
Last of 4 trapped miners found dead, ending 33-day rescue operation at Sinaloa mine
The body of the fourth and final miner trapped in a mine in the northern state of Sinaloa was located early Monday morning. The victim, mine supervisor Leandro Isidro Beltrán, 54, was approximately 350 meters below the surface inside the Santa Fe mine when a tailings dam collapsed on March 25, flooding the mine with water and debris. Twenty-four other miners were working inside the mine at the time, but four — Beltrán among them — were too deep…
Leandro Isidro Beltrán was found by the authorities 33 days or 783 hours after the collapse that caught him and three other comrades in the Santa Fe mine in Sinaloa.
After just over a month of rescue work, the National Coordination of Civil Protection has reported that it has finally located the last miner trapped in the Santa Fe mine, Sinaloa, but without life. Leandro Isidro Beltrán’s body, 54 years old and originally from Hidalgo, was the only one that remained to be found after the collapse of March 25, in which four workers were trapped in the intestines of the gold field. Two came out alive, one was lo…
Autroridades confirmed the lifeless finding of Leandro Isidro Beltrán Reséndiz , 54 years old, who was the last miner missing after the Santa Fe mine accident, located in the municipality of El Rosario, Sinaloa. Beltrán Reséndiz, originally from Zimapán, Hidalgo, was actively sought out by rescue teams and companions since March 25, when the disaster was recorded at the site. After 33 days of maneuvers in the area, the body was located, thus clo…
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