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Small-scale and amerciable mining has often caused accidents successful Indonesia, wherever mineral resources are located successful distant areas successful conditions hard for authorities to regulate.(Photo: X/representative)
At slightest 15 radical died successful the illness of an amerciable golden excavation successful Indonesia’s state of West Sumatra, pursuing a landslide caused by dense rains, an authoritative said connected Friday, portion rescuers are scrambling to find 7 missing.
Small-scale and amerciable mining has often caused accidents successful Indonesia, wherever mineral resources are located successful distant areas successful conditions hard for authorities to regulate.
The amerciable golden excavation successful the territory of Solok collapsed aft a landslide connected Thursday evening owed to dense rain, said Irwan Efendi, the caput of the provincial catastrophe agency.
Rescuers indispensable trek 8 hours to get to the site, which is inaccessible by road, Irwan told Reuters, adding, “The victims are the residents who manually excavation for gold.”
He estimated determination were astir apt 25 radical successful the excavation astatine the clip of the incident, of whom 15 died, portion 3 were injured and 7 are missing.
Police and subject launched a hunt aboriginal connected Friday for the missing, on with steps to evacuate the dead.
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