An explosion in a coal mine in Indonesia’s West Sumatra province has killed nine miners, authorities confirmed Friday as rescue workers continue their search for A missing miner after rescuing two others.
explosion, caused by harmful gases including methane in Astrologer in Swahlunto neighborhood owned by a private Company while the twelve miners were entering the pit.
It was the rescuers using Blowers and exhaust fans to remove air From mine to make it safe to get into area.
“The team Struggled to find victims to look at location It was very difficult (access), said Octavianto, a spokesman for the local search and rescue agency who like Many Indonesians are just passing by one Noun.
Videos distributed by the National Search and Rescue Agency showed rescuers carrying victims out on stretchers and give them oxygen from the tanks. Other screenshots are shown yellow body carry-on bags out from the hole.
Landslides, floods and tunnel collapses just some of Risk miners face.
In April, overloaded truck bearing 29 people hit A hilly upside down hill near an illegal gold mine in West Papua Province in Indonesia, killing 18 people And leave the others injured.
Another major mining-related accident in Indonesia signed in Feb 2019 when a temporary wooden structure in Illegal gold mine in North Sulawesi province collapsed due to the change of soil and the large number of mining holes. over 40 people Died and buried in mine hole.
Sawahlunto was built by the Dutch colonialists as a coal town in nineteenth century.
The explosion comes a day after an earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale hit Indonesia main Island of java on Thursday, the fears reignited just A month after the deadliest earthquake occurred in The last years you killed more from 300 people.
