Last of Mexican Miners Rescued

On Sunday, Mexico’s labor secretary, Javier Lozano, announced that the bodies of all 14 miners had been retrieved from a coal mine in northern Mexico that collapsed last Tuesday after a methane explosion.

The small vertical-shaft mine in Coahuila state had been operating less than a month. It was described by Lozano as “makeshift.” The labor secretary said the accident would prompt mining sector reforms, including fines on those who operate unsafely.

The BBC reported that “The pit is situated near the site of one of the country’s worst mining disasters, in San Juan de Sabinas, where 65 men were killed in 2006.”