Gold mine collapse kills at least 14 in southwest Colombia
Authorities said 14 miners died and seven were injured after an informal gold mine collapsed, with rescue crews blocked by difficult terrain and security risks.
- On Monday, an open pit gold mine collapsed in Nariño Province, killing at least six miners in the remote municipality of Santa Barbara de Iscuande.
- Nariño governor Luis Alfonso Escobar described the site as an 'informal' mine, noting that hundreds of small mines in Colombia operate without government permits and some are controlled by rebel groups.
- Disaster response official Jorge Tovar Castillo reported 12 to 15 additional miners missing following the accident. Santa Barbara de Iscuande is surrounded by dense rainforest and accessible only by boat or small aircraft.
- Escobar stated that "our priority is to save lives, accompany families and guarantee an opportune response to this painful tragedy." Municipal authorities are handling the response despite difficult communications.
- The tragedy underscores risks posed by informal mining, which remains widespread across Colombia. Tovar Castillo said authorities are awaiting updated reports to determine if additional support is needed for ongoing rescue efforts.
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The authorities in Colombia have stopped looking for survivors after a devastating landslide. The governor of the region calls for the legalization of small-scale mining.
Research operations have ceased at the site of this exploitation located in the Nariño, in the south-western part of the country, where criminal groups which finance themselves, inter alia, through the illegal extraction of gold, are operating.
Fourteen people have died and seven were injured in a collapse at an illegal open-pit gold mine in southwestern Colombia. The incident occurred in the rural area of Chembero, in the municipality of Santa Bárbara de Iscuande in the department of Nariño, local authorities said. The landslide buried the miners who were extracting gold. “At this point, we know of 14 deaths. There are also seven injuries. The search operations have already ended,” Al…
The tunnels of an illegal gold mine in Colombia collapsed due to a landslide, crushing at least 14 people and injuring seven others. The post Colombia: At least 14 dead due to a landslide in an illegal gold mine appeared first on in.gr.
A gold mine landslide in Colombia has killed at least nine people. Dozens of workers are feared trapped, and evacuations are hampered by the terrain.
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