Overview
- Francisco Zapata Nájera, 42, was pulled out alive at 10:36 a.m. Wednesday after being located Tuesday afternoon inside the flooded Santa Fe mine.
- Paramedics stabilized him on site and a Mexican Air Force helicopter flew him to the General Hospital of Mazatlán for specialist care.
- Teams also found a third worker dead Wednesday, and state prosecutors began forensic identification after recovering the body.
- One miner remains unaccounted for as the Unified Command keeps pumping out water and securing galleries with a deployment that includes military divers, federal agencies, Jalisco rescue brigades and CFE crews.
- The operation follows a March 25–26 tailings dam collapse that sent water and mine waste into tunnels where 25 people were working, of whom 21 escaped and four were trapped.