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<\/p>\nA Vancouver-based mining company says nine of 10 workers abducted from its project in Mexico have died.<\/p>\n
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Vizsla Silver said in a news release Monday it remains in \u201cclose contact\u201d with the family of one of the workers who remains missing and that they continue to support authorities in the ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n
The workers were abducted in January<\/a>, and authorities said in February<\/a> they began recovering bodies in a clandestine grave.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is a devastating outcome, and our heartfelt condolences are with all the families impacted. We stand beside them with continued support as we mourn our colleagues and friends,\u201d said Michael Konnert, president and CEO of Vizsla Silver, in the news release.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you’ll never miss the day’s top stories.<\/p>\n \u201cWe will always carry this loss with us. We will honour our colleagues through the work we do every day and our ongoing commitment to their families, our community in Sinaloa, and the values that define us.\u201d<\/p>\n Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n Mexican authorities said in February that at least one body matching the characteristics of one of the workers, who were kidnapped from Vizsla\u2019s Panuco project in northern Sinaloa state, was found in the clandestine grave in Concordia.<\/p>\n Mexico\u2019s Attorney General\u2019s Office said then that steps were being taken to confirm the victim\u2019s identity and collect evidence from the grave, where remains of several other bodies were found some 45 kilometres east of the Pacific coast city of Mazatlan.<\/p>\n \n\t\t\tMore on Canada Family members interviewed by Reuters earlier this year said some of the workers who went missing had received threats from organized crime groups in the area, including the Chapitos, a faction of the Sinaloa cartel led by the sons of ex-Mexican drug lord Joaquin \u201cEl Chapo\u201d Guzman.<\/p>\n Jaime Lopez, the uncle of Pablo Osorio, a 26-year-old engineer and one of the men who went missing, said as the family was poor, they would not be able to afford a ransom.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are devastated,\u201d he told Reuters, adding he had not wanted his nephew to go to Concordia as it was dangerous, but it was the only place that had responded to his job applications when he finished his degree three years ago.<\/p>\n \u2014 with files from Reuters<\/p>\n \n\t\t© 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Vancouver-based mining company says nine of 10 workers abducted from its project in Mexico have died. Vizsla…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":711421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2147,2222,16530,50,248736],"class_list":{"0":"post-711420","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-mexico","10":"tag-mining","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-vizsla-silver-corp"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116364482273694594","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Get](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/national.jpg\")
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