About 60 people are feared to be trapped in a collapsed gold mine on the indonesian island of Sulawesi.
emergency personnel have provisionally found a fatal victim, while at least 13 people have been injured.
Efforts to find survivors after the collapse, which happened on Tuesday evening, is Wednesday still in progress.
– Up to 60 persons are estimated to be buried under landslides and rock falls, informs Indonesia’s disaster response in a message Wednesday.
– because of numerous mineskakte and unstable land broke the beams and støtteplader suddenly collapsed, said Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, spokesman for the disaster management.
the photographs from the site can be seen rescue workers and villagers carry people away on stretchers in the darkness. The other is to pull the survivors out.
– the Work to evacuate the people continued through the night, as a result of the number of people estimated to be buried, the spokesman said.
Photo: Reuters
the gold mine was in operation without official permission from the authorities.
the Government has banned the kind of smaller gold mines, but the regional authorities are facing the often blind eye to the kind of the more remote areas, writes the news agency Reuters.
With no or few safety precautions it can be risky to work in the kind of illegal mines.
