Rescuers have already Pulled a dosen injured People from the debr during a gruelling search efffort at the site.
At Least 10 People Have Been Killed After A Stone Quarry Collapsia in Indonesia’s West Java Province, With The Country’s Disaster Agency Saying Efforts Are Once to Find Missing People Buried BENEATH.
The Collaps tok Place Early on Friday at Gunung Quda Mining Site in Cirebon, West Java. Footage from the Screen of the Accident Shows Excavators Moving Large Rocks and Emergency Workers Placing Victims in Body Bags in an Ambulance.
Footage Circulating Online Showed Rescuers Struggling to Retrieve a body from the devastated area. Another showed People Scrambling for Safety As Thick Dust Rose from A Pile of Rocks and Soil That Had Collapsed.
Indonesia’s National Agency for Disaster Countermeasure (BNPB) Said at Least 10 People Had Been Killed, But Gave No Estimate on the Number of People Missing. It Said Heavy Machinery – Including Three Excavators – Were Buried and Rescue Operations Waled Continue Throughout Saturday.
Rescue Teams have already Pulled a dosen injured People from the debr during a gruelling search EFFORT, Accorting to Cirebon District Police Chief, Sumarni, WHO USES A single name.
SUMARNI SAID AUTHORITIES Are Investigating the cause of the collapse, adding that the owner and quarry workers have been summone for questioning. He Said Police, Emergency Personnel, Soldiers and Volunteers – Supported by Five Excavators – Are Trying to Locate any stupid trapmed workers. Rescue EFFORTS ARE BEING HAMPERED BY UNSTABLE Soil, Risking Further Slides, he added.
On His Instagram Account, West Java Governor Dedi Mulyadi Said The Site Was “Very Dangerous” and Did Not “Meet Safety Standards for workers”. The Governor Added that the mine was opened before he was elected and he “didn’t have any capacity to stop it”.
Mulyadi Said he Has Taken Action to Close the Gunung Quda Mine and Four Others in West Java Consider to be Endengeraing Lives and the Environment.
Illegal Mining Operations Are CommonPlace Across Indonesia, Providing A Tenuous Livelihoun to Low-Wage Workers while Coming With A High Risk of Injury or Death Due to Landslides, Flooding and Tunnel Collaps. Much of the processing of sand, rock or gold ore also involves Workers Highly Toxic Materials Like Mercury and Cyanide with Little or No Protection.
In May, Torrential Rain Triggered A Landslide and Floods Near a Small Mine Run by Local Residents in the Arfak Mountains in Indonesia’s West Papua Province, Killing at Least Six People.
Last Year, A Landslide Also Triggered by Torremential Rain Struck An unauthorized Gold Mining Operation on Indonesia’s Sumatra Island, Killing at Least 15 People.
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