Overview
- The Unified Command located the body at 2:15 a.m. Pacific on Monday, identifying the worker as Leandro Isidro Beltrán Reséndiz, 54, from Zimapán, Hidalgo.
- The discovery closed a 33-day effort that logged 783 hours of nonstop work by 389 responders from the Army, Navy, national civil protection, the power utility, state authorities, and mine staff.
- State prosecutors were notified to conduct the technical recovery and legal steps at the site, and officials said support for Beltrán’s family will continue under CNPC chief Laura Velázquez.
- The disaster began March 25 when a tailings dam inside the mine failed, flooding work areas with waste slurry while 25 miners were underground, with 21 escaping and four trapped.
- Of the four trapped, rescuers pulled out José Alejandro Cástulo Colín on March 29 and Francisco Zapata Nájera on April 7, while Abraham Aguilera Aguilera was found dead on April 8 and Beltrán on April 27, a sequence likely to draw scrutiny to tailings-dam safety in Mexico’s mining sector.