On Monday morning, an explosion apparently due to a gas concentration caused a fire at a coal mine in the northern part of the country, in Soulia, in the prefecture of Northern Santander, which borders Venezuela.
Eight miners were still missing in Colombia on Saturday after an explosion at a portico earlier in the week and the bodies of seven workers had been retrieved, the National Mining and Mining Administration (Agencia Nacional de MinerÃa, ANM) said. be in charge of conducting the research operation.
“Seven people are dead and eight workers are missing,” an ANM official told AFP.
On Monday morning, an explosion apparently due to a gas concentration caused a fire at a coal mine in the northern part of the country, in Soulia, in the prefecture of Northern Santander, which borders Venezuela.
“About 90% of the mine collapsed,” which made the work of rescue teams “complicated,” according to John Olivares, secretary of mines and mines in North Santander.
Yesterday Saturday, more than 70 members of rescue teams continued the search inside the mine.
The country with the fourth largest economy in Latin America recorded 148 deaths due to accidents in mines and mines in 2021. Minerals and oil exports are the main in Colombia.
