Mexican president visits site of trapped coal miners

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador visited a mine in the northern state of Coahuila where 10 workers have been trapped for five days to call for intensified efforts into their rescue.

Lopez Obrador told reporters on Sunday, 7 August, that rescuers “have to do everything we are doing and more... I want it to be as soon as possible.”

Approximately 400 soldiers have joined efforts to get the miners out, but the mine has proved too dangerous to enter so far.

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