Manado: The death toll from a landslide in a smallholder mining site in Bakan village, Bolaang Mongondow regency, North Sulawesi province, has reached eight as of 6 p.m. Central Indonesian Time (WITA) on Thursday.
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A joint Search and Rescue (SAR) team has evacuated 27 people from the mining site, with 19 of them surviving the accident.
Deputy for Operation, Search and Help of the National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) Nugroho Budi Wiryanto said the joint SAR team will continue to evacuate those still trapped in the mining site.
"We will continue to evacuate them using heavy duty equipment," he said.
According to the Basarnas official, It is unlikely for the SAR team to evacuate them manually because the stones falling on them are big.
"We have searched inside the mining site and none of them survived so we need heavy duty equipment to dig (the soil there)," he said.
He added he did not know exactly how many people are still trapped in the mining site.
As the search entered its third day on Thursday, many bodies of victims still trapped in the mining site will have an impact on the SAR's health if they are evacuated manually.
On Thursday, the Bolaang Mongondow regent and other local officials monitored the evacuation.
Tens of gold miners were buried in a mining site at Bakan Village, Bolaang Mongondow regency, North Sulawesi Province at 9 p.m local time on Wednesday.
"Tens of gold miners are buried by a landslide in an illegal gold mining site at 9.pm local time on February 27, 2019," BPNB Data and Information Center and Public Relations head Sutopo Purwo Nugroho noted on his Twitter account on Wednesday.
"A joint SAR team continues to evacuate tens of gold miners buried by landslide in the mining site at Bakan Village, Lolayan, Bolaang Mongondow," he added. (Antara)
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