There are already four bodies of miners rescued in the Golden Chasm of Neira

The National Mines Agency (ANM) reported in the afternoon of this Saturday, April 17 that four of the bodies of the miners who had been trapped 22 days ago had already been rescued in a flooded sinkhole of an illegal gold mine in the village of El Bosque, municipality of Neira, Caldas. So there are seven more that have not been located so far.

“In the afternoon, after continuous pumping in the north well, we managed to have minimum conditions to be able to make a visual inspection which we made with the help of a backhoe and a mine rescuer . Once there, we were able to detect that there were certain elements that corresponded to mining work; We found a wheel, a wheelbarrow and a bar. We continue to discover with the backhoe and we find the body of a person “commented in this regard the vice-president of mining security of the Agency, Javier García Grados.

This first body was found around 9:30 am, as reported on his Twitter account by the president of the same entity, Juan Miguel Durán, who immediately expressed his condolences to the young man’s family, reiterating his commitment to continue to search for the other ten victims.

Minutes later, around 10:15 a.m., the location of the second body was reported. At the time, ANM’s social media accounts indicated another of the steps to move forward with their rescue: “The biosafety protocol is being implemented to advance the rescue and subsequent delivery to the appropriate authorities.

While these first two bodies were extracted around 11:30 am of this SaturdayGarcía then assured that the search and rescue work would continue throughout the day, thanks to which it was possible to identify and rescue two other victims throughout the afternoon.

The four bodies were handed over to the Sijín, who He has already transferred them to the Manizales Forensic Barracks, where they will undergo DNA testing. based on samples taken from relatives of the victims weeks ago, according to the newspaper El Tiempo.

Although the identity of those rescued is not yet known, the authorities if they disclosed the names of the 11 flood victims presented on the banks of the Cauca River. They are the brothers Edwin Felipe, Milton Alexis and Diego Fernando Tabarquino; Jhon Edwin Gómez Mapura, Juan Bautista Bañol, Sandro Escarpeta, Samuel Tapasco, Sebastián Trejo, Joel José Briceño, Luis Esteban Londoño Serna and Henry Jiménez.

As indicated by the government of Caldas, rescue work is carried out with psychosocial work for the relatives of the deceased in the abyss they have been waiting for nearly three weeks near the mine.

As part of the victim assistance process, the departmental government facilitated the delivery of emergency humanitarian aid (AHE) to the families of the missing. In addition, they will carry out personalized visits to individually monitor the affected population.

It should not be forgotten that in the work, which has continued since the day of the incident of March 26, In addition to the ANM, the National Risk Management Unit, Civil Defense, the national police, local firefighters and the governorates of Caldas and Risaralda and the mayors of Neira and Quinchía. In total, said Minister of Mines and Energy Diego Mesa, there was a work team of 40 rescuers.

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