Overview
- Early reports indicate the incident occurred during operational work and was likely caused by a structural collapse in an extraction area.
- The employees were identified as Roberto Alonso Gil Navarro and Manuel Reyes Moroyoqui, and internal rescue brigades found them deceased at the scene.
- Grupo México confirmed the fatalities, notified the families and the union, expressed condolences, and reported the accident to authorities.
- The Fiscalía General de la República is leading the investigation, with preliminary findings expected in the coming hours.
- Days earlier, President Claudia Sheinbaum announced a federal working group to compel Grupo México to fulfill long-standing remediation commitments from the 2014 spill that affected more than 22,000 residents, with monitoring reports citing worsening water contamination in recent years.