JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/ANN): An illegal coal mine in Tanjung Lalang village, Tanjung Agung district, Muaraenim regency, South Sumatra collapsed on Wednesday (Oct 21)afternoon, killing 11 miners in the landslide.
“The victims are miners who worked in the 20-metre deep tunnel-like mine. A landslide occurred as the soil became unstable during heavy rain, ” Ansori, the emergency division head at the South Sumatra Disaster Mitigation Agency, said on Wednesday evening.
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