3 Dead in Mexico Mine Collapse, 3 Still Missing

3 Dead in Mexico Mine Collapse, 3 Still Missing
Miners with heavy machinery work in an opencast coal mine in Agujita, Coahuila State in Mexico, in a file photo. Yuri Cortez/AFP via Getty Images
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MEXICO CITY—The bodies of two miners were pulled from a small coal mine in a northern Mexico border state by early Sunday, bringing to three the number confirmed dead in the flood and partial collapse of the shaft. Three miners remain missing, and search efforts continued.

The dead miners were found at the small coal mine in the northern Mexico border state of Coahuila, where there have been complaints for years about unsafe conditions at coal mines.