rescue team The last four miners were found dead. Stranded after an explosion at a coal mine in Cundinamarca (centre) in Colombia’s Cucunubá municipality, seven people were killed. Authorities exhumed the bodies of three miners When the explosion occurred on Thursday and rescued the other four miners alive.
Cundinamarca Fire Department Delegate Captain Álvaro Farfán reported this Friday that they had found the bodies of the stranded miners.
According to the information received, the explosion occurred at 01:00 am (6.00 GMT) in the El Roble and El Manto mines and may have been caused by gas accumulating in these galleries, according to local media. which is legal according to the authorities. .
This accident occurred a month after another explosion in a mining network in the same department in the town of Sutatausa on March 14. 21 miners lost their lives. The tragedy was triggered by an explosion, possibly caused by the buildup of gases that shook the interconnected underground galleries where more than a hundred miners worked.
Such tragedies are repeated in Turkey. In Colombia, where coal deposits are abundant, in the departments of Boyacá, Cundinamarca, Antioquia, Norte de Santander and Caldas, which often operate without the necessary safety conditions and cause accidents. According to the National Mining Agency (ANM), there have been at least 1,262 mining accidents in Colombia over the past decade that have claimed the lives of more than 1,300 people.