BOGOTA '- At least twenty miners were killed in an explosion in a coal mine in Sardinia, in the Colombian region of Norte de Santander, on the border with Venezuela. At the time of the explosion of the mine tunnel in the mine 'La Preciosa', there were about thirty employees. According to local media hopes that there will be few survivors.
"They told me that there are 20 dead and six wounded," said Marisa Fernandez, one of the institute responsible mining. The Red Cross has confirmed that five bodies taken away. At the time of four of these were located at the entrance of the mine while the fifth would have died during transfer to hospital.
The mayor of Sardinia Yamile Rangel, said that 16 people were still trapped underground, the chances are alive are almost nil. In deflgrazione due to accumulation of methane gas in the tunnel were also involved eight miners who were not in the quarry. "Some were under the ground, others on the surface but the shock wave was very strong," said Gabriel Tamayo, one of the managers of the mine.
Today is the last in a series of accidents in the mines of South America, including the one that attracts the world's attention in August when 33 miners were in Chile for months trapped in the bowels of the earth. On 16 June another explosion killed 73 miners in Colombia, in Antioquia. In October, also in Sardinia, six workers died in a coal mine for methane gas explosion in November and nine workers were killed in two small mines, more coal, in Cundinamarca.
Colombia is the world's fifth largest coal industry, which carries a high price in human lives: in 2010 alone over one hundred miners died in accidents. 
"They told me that there are 20 dead and six wounded," said Marisa Fernandez, one of the institute responsible mining. The Red Cross has confirmed that five bodies taken away. At the time of four of these were located at the entrance of the mine while the fifth would have died during transfer to hospital.
The mayor of Sardinia Yamile Rangel, said that 16 people were still trapped underground, the chances are alive are almost nil. In deflgrazione due to accumulation of methane gas in the tunnel were also involved eight miners who were not in the quarry. "Some were under the ground, others on the surface but the shock wave was very strong," said Gabriel Tamayo, one of the managers of the mine.
Today is the last in a series of accidents in the mines of South America, including the one that attracts the world's attention in August when 33 miners were in Chile for months trapped in the bowels of the earth. On 16 June another explosion killed 73 miners in Colombia, in Antioquia. In October, also in Sardinia, six workers died in a coal mine for methane gas explosion in November and nine workers were killed in two small mines, more coal, in Cundinamarca.
Colombia is the world's fifth largest coal industry, which carries a high price in human lives: in 2010 alone over one hundred miners died in accidents.
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