Overview
- The Guardia Civil’s judicial unit, under the Cangas del Narcea court, is leading the probe while the regional mining directorate conducts technical verifications.
- Company technicians report a fortuitous, punctual geological failure that brought down roughly nine meters of roof rapidly and without warning in the second level about 1.5 kilometers from the entrance.
- The mine passed a routine inspection the previous day, and Tyc Narcea maintains that supports were installed more frequently than regulations require.
- Rescuers reached the first victim around 19:45 and recovered the second after midnight, with the Brigada de Salvamento Minero and a SAMU physician confirming the deaths.
- The deceased are Óscar Díaz Rodríguez, 32, and Anilson Soares de Brito, 42; a third worker, identified as Marcos Álvarez Valín, survived and raised the alarm.