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PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Mexico (AP) - A judge has ordered the arrest of five mine managers and inspectors on charges of negligent homicide in the deaths of 65 coal miners killed in an underground gas explosion last year, company and state officials said Monday.
Industrial Minera Mexico, owner of the Pasta de Conchos mine, said in a news release that it "has knowledge" of the arrest orders and "trusts the Mexican justice system," saying it will cooperate with authorities in the case. It did not name those being sought.
Coahuila state prosecutor Jorge Rios, who asked the judge to issue the arrest orders, said he had found managers and inspectors at Pasta de Conchos did not fix unsafe conditions detected eight months before the blast.
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