Baku-APA. Five miners died Tuesday in a collapse inside a gold mine in the southwestern Colombian province of Cauca, regional authorities said, APA reports quoting news.monstersandcritics.com website.
The incident occurred in the morning in the port city of BuenaventurThe accident in the village of San Antonio de Suarez killed four men and one woman who were working in the mine at the time.
Mining accidents in Colombia have claimed about 500 lives since 2004. The worst of recent times happened a year ago, when 73 people were killed in a blast at a coal mine in Amaga, in the northwestern Colombian province of Antioquia.