{"id":119349,"date":"2021-04-19T12:42:27","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T04:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=119349"},"modified":"2021-04-19T12:42:29","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T04:42:29","slug":"rescuers-recover-bodies-of-11-killed-in-illegal-colombian-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=119349","title":{"rendered":"Rescuers recover bodies of 11 killed in illegal Colombian mine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/8bc78aec-c244-4832-8cd8-cc453c5a979e_16x9_1200x676.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/8bc78aec-c244-4832-8cd8-cc453c5a979e_16x9_1200x676-696x392.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>BOGOTA, April 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Rescuers in Colombia have recovered the bodies of 11 people killed after an illegal goldmine flooded almost a month ago, an official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The group was trapped on March 26, when the 17-meter deep shaft flooded in a heavy downpour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWith the mining rescue team\u2026 they managed to recover the 11 bodies that are already at the disposal of the authorities,\u201d said National Mining Agency (ANM) president Juan Miguel Duran in a video sent to the press on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rescue \u2014 originally expected to take less than 48 hours \u2014 was delayed by further flooding in the area around the mine, located on the banks of the Cauca River in a rural area in northwestern Colombia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first bodies were recovered early Saturday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Duran expressed his condolences to the victims\u2019 families and called for efforts \u201cto avoid other tragedies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mining accidents are common in Colombia, where income from illegally-extracted gold exceeds that from drug trafficking \u2014 practices that funded armed groups that fought a near six-decade conflict from which the country is still recovering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So far this year, 46 miners have died, according to the ANM, and 171 last year. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOGOTA, April 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Rescuers in Colombia have recovered the bodies of 11 people killed after an illegal goldmine flooded almost a month ago, an official said. The group was trapped on March 26, when the 17-meter deep shaft flooded in a heavy downpour. \u201cWith the mining rescue team\u2026 they managed to recover the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":119351,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119349"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/119351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}