Large pumps on Saturday sucked water from a flooded coal mine in Mexico as authorities weighed whether to send divers to try to save 10 miners who have been trapped underground for more than three days.
The miners became trapped at a mine in the northern border state of Coahuila on Wednesday afternoon when their excavation work caused a tunnel wall to collapse, triggering flooding in three wells.
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said that Saturday would be “decisive” in determining whether divers could safely enter the mine, but by the afternoon, Coahuila Governor Miguel Riquelme said water levels were still
Round-the-clock pumping slightly lowered the level of water inside the flooded shafts of a coal mine where 10 miners were trapped in northern Mexico, but two