Seventh body recovered from Mexican mine

CNN, 5/6/2011

Rescuers early Friday morning recovered a seventh body from inside a coal mine in northern Mexico, the country’s labor secretary said.

Javier Lozano has said that at this point — more than three days after an explosion — there is no hope of finding alive the remaining miners trapped inside.

Seven other bodies remain inside the shaft.

A group of five experts from Chile arrived at the mine site just outside of Sabinas, Mexico, to aid Mexican authorities, though a heroic rescue like that of the 33 miners trapped in Chile last year was virtually impossible.

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