Amfissa: A 40-year-old dead in a gallery in a bauxite mine – Three other workers were freed

The rescue operation of three workers at the Bauxite Mines of the IMERYS company in Variani has been completed, where one more worker, a 40-year-old engineer, died after a rock fell inside the central gallery of the Mines. As the Sky correspondent reports, Panagiotis Garoufalliasaccording to the first information, the unfortunate engineer was the father of a child.

According to the commander of the Fire Service of Fokida, Evangelos Tsiorlidas“a large rock, under inexplicable circumstances, fell and crushed a 4X4 of the IMERYS company driven by the 40-year-old engineer who was crushed at a distance of one kilometer from the entrance of the portico”.

The unfortunate 40-year-old from Lamia was pulled out unconscious and taken to the Amfissa hospital where he was pronounced dead.

According to Mr. Tsiorlidas, the firefighters and workers “fought for 3 more people who could not get out of the gallery”. “They were freed and are in good health” as he said and thus the operation has been completed in which 14 firefighters of the 7th EMAK from Lamia and 26 firefighters from Amfissa participated with 8 vehicles.

According to the workers in the same arcade, which is also called “Camora” by the workers, 19 years ago in 2003 we had another collapse and workers were killed.

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