Families have gathered at the mine where fears are growing for the men trapped underground Fourteen workers have been trapped underground at a coal mine in northern Mexico after a gas explosion.
A teenage boy has been pulled out alive from the mine near the town of San Juan de Sabinas, but there are growing fears for his colleagues down below.
Rescue workers say they have not yet given up hope.
However, they have been unable to make contact with the men because there are high levels of dangerous methane gas in the mine shaft.
The blast happened at a small artisanal mine in the northern state of Coahuila, close to the border with the United States.
As tearful family members gathered near the entrance of the mine, the authorities tried to extract the undergound gas using machines.
President Felipe Calderon said his government was helping the local authorities in their rescue efforts.
In 2006, more than 65 miners died in a similiar accident in the same region in one of Mexico’s worst mining disasters.
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