Mexico City: Five miners have been trapped after a blast in a coal mine in Coahuila in northern Mexico.
“We have no information as to whether they are alive or injured,” said civil protection representative Juan Antonio Ibarra said, adding emergency services are now attempting to free the trapped miners.
Ibarra said a pocket of gas likely caused the explosion that occurred between 60 and 70 meters (195-228 feet) underground, Reuters reported.
The coal mine is privately operated by a man called Federico Quintanilla, Ibarra said.
Coal mines in Coahuila are famously unsafe. A 2006 methane explosion in a Piedras Negras mine killed 65 miners.
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