This report came after Nicolás Maduro confirmed 15 dead and 11 injured in this incident and dismissed the information given earlier by the mayor of the town, Yorgi Arciniega, who spoke of 30 deaths and about 100 missing.
At least 16 people died in the collapse that occurred in an illegal mine in the state of Bolívar, according to the most recent balance provided by the vice minister for Risk Management and Civil Protection, Carlos Pérez Ampueda.
This report came after Nicolás Maduro confirmed 15 dead and 11 injured in this incident and dismissed the information given earlier by the mayor of the town, Yorgi Arciniega, who spoke of 30 deaths and about 100 missing.null
Through XPérez Ampueda indicated that, until that moment, the Civil Protection team had rescued 11 injured people of varying severity and located 16 bodies, which were transferred – along with the injured – to a care post set up by the authorities in the town of the Umbrella.
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In that place, he explained, “field triage tents for pre-hospital care are installed,” as well as “autopsy rooms (attended) by experts in forensic medicine.”
Maduro confirmed that it is an illegal mine to which the Executive has sent “the entire Civil Protection team”, and assured that, although the area “is very deep” and with connection problems, the rescue teams “are already in the place”.
In none of the government reports is any number of missing people mentioned.
In view of the event, the main opposition coalition, the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD), expressed its “deep pain” and made “hopes for the speedy recovery of the injured.”
«This unfortunate accident is a consequence of the conditions in which mining activity is carried out in many cases. The way in which Nicolás Maduro’s regime allows mining activity in that area only brings human and environmental tragedies to our country,” expressed the anti-Chavista bloc in X.
Videos are circulating on social networks that show the great depression produced in the site, in which dozens of people try to help those who were walled up.
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