The environmental emergency occurred at noon, this Thursday, May 5, in the village of Pueblo Viejo in the municipality ofand Cucunubá (Cundinamarca) where mining is carried out for the exploitation of coal.
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The community notified the authorities who arrived in the sector, to support those affected and establish the causes of the incident. So far, there is the hypothesis that it was given by a accumulation of gases.
The collapse went inside the mine and it was established that there are two workers who were trapped in the rubble.
Due to the terrible event, the victims who received the impact were found dead according to the authorities who carried out the search, including the Official Fire Department of Ubaté.
It is important to mention that, The Regional Autonomous Corporation of Cundinamarca (Car) reported in recent weeks that he is in the inspection of mines in the department and in fact, they were carrying out technical reviews in which Illegal mines were closed in the Cucunubá and Lenguazaque sectors (Cundinamarca).
In fact, in the province of Ubaté, the community opposed a permit that they were requesting, precisely in Cucunubá, the company Epyca SAS that sought to expand its mining exploitation scheme and they would not comply with the environmental commitments that prevent landslides and exploitation.
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