The bodies of eleven workers were pulled by rescue crews over the weekend from an illegal gold mine in Colombia. Workers were trapped in late March due to flooding in Neira, in the northwestern part of the country.
Thanks to the efforts of specialized members of rescue teams “We were able to retrieve the eleven bodies that are now at the disposal of the authorities,” Juan Miguel Duran, president of the National Mining and Mining Administration (ANM), said in a video released to the media.
The 11 gold miners were trapped on March 26 in a gallery 17 meters deep after heavy rainfall.
The efforts of the rescue teams were hampered by the continuation of bad weather in the area. The first two bodies were retrieved on Saturday, as broadcast by AMPE.
Accidents of this kind are common in Colombia, where revenues from the illegal mining of precious metals, especially gold, now exceed those from drug trafficking, according to prosecutors.
Various armed organizations in the country, plagued for the last sixty years by an extremely complex civil war, are funded primarily by these two activities.
Since the beginning of the year, 46 people have already lost their lives in accidents of this nature, according to ANM data. In 2020, the death toll from this type of accident had reached 171 dead, in 2019 82, according to the same source.
Legally mined minerals are, along with oil, the main export resources of Colombia, Latin America’s 4th largest economy.
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