Overview

• Emergency teams are conducting an active extraction at the Mezquite coal mine in Sabinas following a cart malfunction that left workers underground.
• Headcounts vary across outlets, with early reports of six trapped rising to accounts of at least 16 people below ground.
• Authorities report the miners are alive, have access to oxygen, and no fatalities have been reported at this stage.
• The Secretaría del Trabajo, Protección Civil, firefighters, paramedics, police, and the Agencia de Investigación Criminal are on site handling rescue efforts and the investigation.
• Local media identify the operator as DUMAC or DRUMAC, and some reports say the crew was about 100 meters deep and ascending when the system failed.