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MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico's Labor Department failed to ensure that conditions inside a coal mine met safety standards before a February explosion killed 65 miners, the National Human Rights Commission said Monday.
Investigations conducted by the commission, a governmental organization which operates autonomously, stopped short of blaming the labor department, but said it tolerated carelessness and neglect from those officials assigned to ensuring the Pasta de Conchos mine was safe.
Federal authorities "had full knowledge the working conditions of the mine where the catastrophe occurred infringed on security standards," the commission said in a statement.
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