Explosion traps 12 in a Colombian coal mine
Authorities said a gas buildup likely caused the blast after inspectors warned the mine of dangerous methane levels weeks earlier.
- On Monday, a coal mine explosion in Sutatausa, Colombia, trapped at least 12 miners at a legally operated site about 46 miles outside Bogota.
- Cundinamarca Governor Jorge Emilio Rey stated 15 miners were inside when the explosion occurred, attributing it to a "buildup of gases," with three miners escaping.
- Rescue workers and ambulances arrived at the mine entrance to assist, and a source confirmed to AFP that two of the evacuees were "out of danger."
- Mining accidents are common in central Colombia, where dozens of small operators run coal mines, and illegal mines failing to meet safety standards also operate in the region.
- Fatalities in the sector are frequent; 11 miners died in a 2020 accident in Cucunuba, and in 2023, another explosion at a separate coal mine in Sutatausa killed 11 miners.
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Dnevni list Danas
n1info.rsIn an explosion in a coal mine in Columbia, nine miners were killed and six were injured.
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Colombian mine explosion kills nine
A coal mine explosion in central Colombia on Monday killed nine people, the national mining authority said, less than a month after it flagged safety issues at the site.
The Colombian authorities confirmed the death of nine of the 15 miners who had been trapped on Monday by the explosion of a coal mine in the municipality of Sutatausa, in the department of Cundinamarca (center), while the other six were rescued alive.
Saudi Gazette
AlKhaleej TodayNine Colombian coal miners die in gas explosion
Nine people have died and six others sustained injuries in an explosion at a coal mine in Colombia in the latest fatal accident to hit the country's mining sector, the national mining agency said on Monday, several weeks after it issued risk control recommendations for the site.
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