Bogota: Coal mine explosion explodes in Cukunuba municipality of Colombia. Three people died in this accident. The country’s national mining agency has confirmed that three of the seven miners who went missing after the coal mine explosion have been found dead. A news agency quoted Governor Nicolás García as saying that at least seven miners were missing after the explosion in the Colombian municipality in the department of Cundinamarasa.
Nicolas Garcia posted a video on Twitter on Thursday. In which he said that we have a report from the rescue team, which says that they pulled out four trapped miners alive and took them to the hospital. While we continue to search and rescue the seven other miners. The explosion occurred at about 1 p.m. local time on Thursday at the interconnected mines in an area of Pueblo Viejo.
Energy Minister Irene Vélez told via social media that teams from the National Mining Agency, Civil Defense, Public Forces and the Fire Department were working on the rescue operation. Capt. Alvaro Farfan, a representative of the Cundinarmasa fire department, told local media that it has been difficult to enter the mines because toxic gases such as carbon monoxide, methane gas and coal dust have been released from mines more than 900 meters deep. The cause of the accident is being probed, the official said.
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