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Pasta de Conchos Mine Explosion

This article is about a coal mine in Mexico that exploded. There have been many people searching for survivors, but hope looks bleak. The air wouldn't have had enough oxygen to breathe and the methane and carbon dioxide spread to every corner. Plus, the temperatures raised to 1,110 degrees Fahrenheit. And yet, families continue to have hope and many are camping out next to the mine, waiting for either survivors or remains to be found. The company is giving money to the families for their loss, but most families don't want to accept the money because that would mean that the company would stop looking for the miners. 65 miners were trapped inside when the pre-dawn explosion happened last Sunday the 19th, and there is little hope that any survived. But one son of a miner declared that "faith and hope are the last things to go," he said. "I won't lose mine until they turn his body over to me."


read the story yourself at http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/02/25/mexico.mine.ap/index.html

posted by Anonymous @ 2/26/2006 02:03:00 PM