US EditionRescuers recover bodies of miners trapped in Colombia coal mine
The methane explosion at an illegal coal mine in Guachetá killed six miners; the mine had an expired permit and was ordered closed in 2019, officials said.
- Search and rescue personnel finished recovering the bodies of a group of miners trapped earlier this week inside an informal coal mine.
- Authorities said Thursday's explosion was caused by a methane gas buildup at the Mata Siete mine in Guachetá, about 75 miles north of Bogotá, where the blast occurred earlier this week.
- The agency posted that four bodies were recovered Saturday, the first regulator-confirmed tally for the weekend recoveries.
- Authorities handed earlier-recovered remains to the Colombian Attorney General's Office investigative unit, and the agency said the explosion remains under investigation.
- The National Mining Agency previously said the Mata Siete mine operated with an expired mining permit and engaged in illegal coal mining, receiving a closure order in March 2019.
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High methane levels hamper search efforts – “Chances of survivors are slim,” say authorities
Two people were pulled dead from the tunnels of an illegal coal mine in central Colombia on Friday, while a search and rescue operation is ongoing to find four other missing people. The mine......
Two people were pulled dead from the tunnels of an illegal coal mine in central Colombia on Friday, while the search and rescue operation continues to locate four other missing people. The illegal coal mine – located in the city of Huatxeta in the department of Cundinamarca, about 100 kilometers from the capital Bogota – suffered a powerful explosion on Thursday. “The bodies of two of the six miners have been pulled,” said the prefect, Jorge Emi…
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