After a landslide at a gold mine that left six workers dead and four people injured, Indonesia’s search for 14 people who are missing in its easternmost region, Papua, was put on hold on Monday ( May 19 ), according to officials.
According to Abdul Muhari, the director of Indonesia’s hazard reduction organization, the rains had caused Friday’s disaster, which hit a tiny me run by residents of the Arfak mountains of West Papua province.
Regulators will begin their search for those who have been missing following the catastrophe, which engulfed temporary tents used by miners, on Tuesday.
According to Yefri Sabaruddin, the leader of a group of 40 rescuers, which included police and military personnel, “damaged roads and rocky tracks as well as negative weather,” the research effort was hampered by the damage.
According to him, getting to the site took 12 hours from the village where it was located.
The previous figure for Monday was one dying and 19 people missing.
In Indonesia, small-scale, illegal mining has frequently caused accidents because the mineral resources are kept in isolated areas in circumstances that are hard for authorities to control.
The number of injuries is possible.
In the aftermath of a flood caused by heavy rains in West Sumatra state last September, at least 15 people died in the decline of an improper gold mine.
At least 23 people were killed in a second flood in a silver mine on Sulawesi area in July last year, according to a report from the beach.