Nine people were stranded in an illegal coal mine in the town of Lenguazaque, in central Colombia, after a landslide on Wednesday, the National Mining Agency (ANM), a state body, reported.
“At 5:30 p.m. there was contact with the miners, the nine workers are alive, one of them is injured. They are being supplied with air and are already receiving medical support from the surface,” the ANM said in a press release. release.
A casuality
The collapse occurred in the morning hours and, since then, rescuers have been working to try to save the nine miners.
According to the Agency, “we are evaluating in parallel the convenience of drilling a tunnel from another mine to be able to access” them by other means.
Colombia, the fourth economy in Latin America, registered in 2021 the death of 148 people in accidents in mines. Oil and mining are its main sources of export.
Source: BFM TV
