At least 7 miners died in Peru on Thursday collapse inside the mine According to local media reports, their place of employment was located in the city center of La Rinconada in the southern region of Puno.
According to La República newspaper, Peru National Police (PNP) pointed out that the landslide was a work accident in which miners were crushed to death due to fractures in their bodies.
It was a colleague who found the seven victims in the mine According to the details in the media, the person who took the bodies with a vehicle from the 1,500 meter deep area. The incident was reported to the police, who arrived at the Lago de Oro mine and confirmed the deaths of seven people, along with the duty prosecutor, Nimer Bautista Quilla.
While members of the Police Criminalistics Bureau are removing the bodies taken to the local morgue, the Prosecutor’s Office is investigating what happened. The events took place in the town of La Rinconada, located 5,000 meters above sea level in the Puno province of San Antonio de Putina and known for its gold mines.