The relief agencies confirmed that the miners were found lifeless.
After 9 days, 7 miners were rescued who were trapped in a gold mine in the San Antonio sector, municipality of Santander de Quilichl
Uncertainty ended for relatives of seven miners that were trapped by a landslide in a gold mine, in the San Antonio sector, Brasilia district in the municipality of Santander de Quilichao, El Cauca.
For 9 days, relief agencies, official machinery and technicians of the National Mining Agency, remained in that sector of the northern department, Trying to rescue four Colombian citizens and three foreigners, who were the interior of a “cubic” when the mountain collapsed and reached them.
Spokesmen of the relief agencies, They indicated that the workers were found together inside the undercut and would have lost their lives, due to lack of oxygen.
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The victims of this mining accident are Dayro Guerrero, Alejandro Larrahondo, Robert Balanta, Gabriel Balanta, Neftalí Trochez, N Balanta and Carlos José Piña.
The intervention of community guards to guarantee security was necessary on the site, given the presence of hundreds of people, who arrived in order to get gold from the land removed by the machinery used for rescue.
The mayor of the municipality of Santander de Quilichao, Luis Eduardo Grijalba, lamented the registered situation and said the issue of mining It is one of the aspects that must be reviewed by the State and the authorities in the north of Caucagiven the accidents that are recorded but also because of the way it generates violence in the territory.
In the place is the Cimarrona Guard and the Indigenous Guard, together with the competent entities, to maintain control of the area and accompany the families and communities while advancing the corresponding procedures.
Source: Integrated information system
