About 20 workers were in the mine galleries when the landslide occurred on Thursday night
Seven workers have been killed and five others injured at a gold mine in West Kalimantan, Indonesia, after a landslide hit the area. The fate of eight other people trapped in the galleries is unknown, according to a search and rescue official at the mine.
About 20 workers were in the mine galleries when the landslide occurred on Thursday night. Authorities were notified 24 hours later, according to rescue chief Eric Subbariando. “We received the information on Friday night and immediately dispatched rescuers to the scene,” he told Xinhua news agency.
The search and rescue operation is, according to Subarianto, extremely difficult due to the morphology of the ground combined with the landslide caused by the heavy rains of the last few days. Soldiers and villagers assist in the operation, as the hours pass and hope of finding the unfortunate workers alive fades away.
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