Indonesian officials said on Wednesday dozens of rescuers were using spades and ...
JAKARTA - Indonesian officials said on Wednesday dozens of rescuers were using spades and ropes to dig out around 45 people who were feared buried by the collapse of an illegal gold mine on the island of Sulawesi that killed at least one person.
Indonesia’s disaster mitigation agency said one body had been recovered by 8 a.m on Wednesday after the mine collapsed the previous evening. Indonesian media reports put the death toll at three. Photos released by the disaster agency showed rescue workers and villagers on a muddy hillside scrambling to pull out survivors and carry them away on stretchers during the night.
“Evacuation efforts continued through the night because of the number of people estimated to be buried,” he said. The area is also home to a gold mine operated by PT J Resources Asia Pasifik, where production began in 2013.
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