🇻🇪⚰️⛈💥 — Landslide in Inza, Colombia, hinders search for bodies in coal mine explosion; after searches, none of 21 trapped workers survived explosions
An explosion inside a coal mine tunnel has left a total of 21 miners dead in central Colombia, one of the worst tragedies in recent years in a country with frequent such accidents, according to Colombian officials.
Landslides blocking the passage in the galleries hampered rescue work for dozens of rescuers in the tunnels of six interconnected mines that collapsed in the explosion.
The final toll of 21 dead makes this tragedy one of the worst in recent years in Colombia, which recorded more than 1,200 disasters of this type between 2011 and 2022.
An explosion inside a coal mine tunnel has left a total of 21 miners dead in central Colombia, one of the worst tragedies in recent years in a country with frequent such accidents, according to Colombian officials.
Landslides blocking the passage in the galleries hampered rescue work for dozens of rescuers in the tunnels of six interconnected mines that collapsed in the explosion.
The final toll of 21 dead makes this tragedy one of the worst in recent years in Colombia, which recorded more than 1,200 disasters of this type between 2011 and 2022.