Tails in the Mining Basin to wrap the families of the five deceased workers | Spain
The worst mining accident of the last 30 years has joined Asturias and León, that autonomous community that was thought after the Franco dictatorship to combine coal basins but never was. The Zarréu mine (Cerredo in Spanish) in The one that five workers died on Monday and four suffered serious injuries It is in Asturian territory, but they are Villablino, the Leon people located 15 kilometers and from which four of the fatalities came, the municipality that has concentrated on Tuesday the pain for the tragedy. The burning chapel with the five coffins has been installed in the municipal sports center.
There was more than an hour for the enclosure to open its doors and there were already dozens of inhabitants of this depopulated region who expected the arrival of the bodies of Jorge Carro, Rubén Souto Robla, Amadeo Bernabé Castelao, Iván Radio and David Álvarez. After 11 in the morning, the five funeral cars arrested the gate of the pavilion; the condolences books under the arm of two crying workers of the funeral home; and members of the broken families for the tragedy in Zarréu. A woman accompanied by two young girls breaks in a groan and hugs one of the civil protection volunteers deployed in the area. Here everyone knows the victims or know in their own flesh what pain is in these cases.
The burning chapel has opened to the public with an applause of those present and some indications by megaphone to accelerate the pesames due to how affected the families are. The most close to the deceased have surrounded the five coffins on the green track of the pavilion, hugged by crowns of flowers and by the neighbors who have waited in a row for their turn to show their condolences. Red Cross troops have provided psychological assistance and arranged tables with water and paper scarves.
The neighbors who have attended the families of the deceased miners repeat the word « inexplicable » to refer to the tragedy in Zarréu. The main hypothesis of the researchers points to an explosion of Grisúbut it is investigating to find out what the trigger was. On the conditions in which the affected miners worked, the Principality has revealed that Blue Solving exceeded an inspection on September 23. « Nothing abnormal was detected, » explained the Minister of Ecological Transition and Industry, Berlarmina Díaz on Tuesday, who stressed that « the company is going to be checked up. »
Díaz and the Government delegate in Asturias, also the socialist Adriana Lastra, have detailed that the company had two permits, but none of coal extraction. In addition to the authorization to investigate the type of mineral and explore new uses other than the thermal for energy production, a license was given to withdraw material from the old exploitation on the third floor where the accident occurred, from junk to roads. It expired on April 11. « They had no permission for coal extraction in any of the floors of the mine, » Lastra said, which added that all the exploitation is now closed.
The samples of grieving for the accident, The worst that has been lived in the Mining Basin since the 1990shave happened both in León and Asturias. Two days with half -mast flags, black crepones on the streets and suspended celebrations. In the Asturian municipality of Mieres a minute of silence has been convened next to the monument to the miner.
The four wounded in the explosion are still hospitalized, but « they evolve favorably, » said Lastra. Of the two miners who are in the ICU of the Central University Hospital of Asturias (HUCA), one is a 36 -year -old man, a neighbor of the Asturian town of Degaña, in which the exploitation is recorded where the explosion was recorded. The other two injured are 47 and 39 and are admitted to Hospitals in León Capital and Ponferrada.
