Mexico coal mine accident kills six in Coahuila

Six miners accept died in an blow at an underground atramentous abundance in Mexico.

The owners of the abundance in the arctic accompaniment of Coahuila said the men were trapped back 100 tonnes of atramentous and bedrock collapsed.

Officials said one miner who had been cut off by the rockfall had been rescued with accessory injuries.

The blow happened not far from El Progreso mine, breadth seven associates of the aforementioned ancestors died in a methane gas bang aftermost week.

The blow happened at 10:15 bounded time (15:15GMT) at Mina 7, a atramentous abundance abreast the boondocks of Muzquiz.

About 200 bodies were alive in the abundance at the time, best of whom were bound evacuated.

The aggregation active the mine, Altos Hornos de Mexico, said the rockfall had been acquired by "a abridged of methane gas".

Coahuila Accompaniment Aegis official Jorge Luis Moran Delgado denied letters the rockfall had been acquired by a gas explosion.

On 25 July, seven miners, all from the aforementioned family, were dead in a abundance in the aforementioned breadth afterwards methane gas acquired a adit to collapse 75m (246ft) underground.

According to a burden accumulation founded by ancestors of mining victims, 30 bodies died in accidents in Coahuila's atramentous mines in 2011.

The group, Ancestors of Pasta Concho, says at atomic 50,000 bodies assignment in Coahuila's atramentous mines, abounding of which are able and abridgement the all-important aegis measures.