Emergency agencies pointed out that it is increasingly difficult to find miners alive.
The emergency agencies in the department of Cauca complete three days of searching for the seven miners trapped in a socavón in rural area of Santander de Quilichao.
The tragedy was recorded last Friday, September 12, when A mass movement caused the collapse of an illegal mine dedicated to the production of gold, where the disappearance of the workers who is presumed to have been trapped in the middle of the mud and the rocks, thirty meters underground.
The incident was presented in the municipality of Santander de Quilicho on the Veredal area of Brasilia, In the corregimiento of San Antonio. There initially the rescue work were advanced by members of the communities and hours later came yellow machinery that has been used to find the whereabouts of the workers.
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Among the group of caught miners is a minor of 17 years and several young people. The list of names and identities that are known are those of Dayro Guerrero, Alejandro Larrahondo, Robert Balanta, Gabriel Balanta, Neftalí Tróchez and Carlos José Piña Valencia.
In the area several specialized rescue search groups between civil defense, the Red Cross, the Fire Department and the Directorate of Risk and Disaster Management are attended. However, so far there is no miners’ track.
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Although rescue work has not ceased, The possibilities of finding alive to any of the miners are reduced significantlybecause the lack of oxygen and the pressure on the body that is given by the slope of earth significantly compromise the survival of men.
For its part, The director of the Santander Risk Management Office of Quilichao, Diana Collazos, It was pronounced in this regard, pointing out that joint tasks are carried out to rescue the miners.
“At this time we are working with relief agencies, with Civil Defense, with Red Cross, with support from the companies of Nuevo Cauca, also with mining agencies and with the institutionality of the different secretariats of the municipal administration,” said the official.
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The difficulty in accessing the remote area has also been one of the complications in rescue work, but the relatives of the disappeared do not lose confidence to find their loved ones alive.
Source: Integrated information system
