Reply #5: MEXICAN MINERS TRAPPED

[Judi Lynn]

Feb. 20, 2006, 2:26AM
MEXICAN MINERS TRAPPED
Crews struggle to reach dozens after gas explosion

By DUDLEY ALTHAUS
Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle

MEXICO CITY - Rescue teams worked furiously late Sunday to reach dozens of Mexican coal miners trapped deep underground by a gas explosion.

The explosion ripped through the mine at about 2 a.m. Sunday near the town of San Juan de Sabinas, about 85 miles south of the Texas border city of Eagle Pass, authorities said.

A spokesman for the company that operates the mine said the trapped men were in "extreme danger."
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Local reports, state authorities and union officials put the number of missing miners at anywhere from 65 to 70. The number of injured varied from seven to a dozen. And the location of the trapped miners was anywhere from 445 feet underground to two miles below the surface, depending on the source.
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