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Disappeared ten miners when sinking mine the Gallera

posted on Oct 09, 2009 06:47AM
Disappeared ten miners when sinking mine the Gallera
Friday, 09 of October of 2009

The uncertain conditions in which numerous workers operate the area and bad weather in continuous rains, produced the landslide of a gold mine, in the zone of the Claritas, parish San Isidro, Sifontes municipality. The personnel of Civil defense of the south, had rescued, shortly after the 6 of afternoon, five bodies.

  • Isidro Casanova

At least ten miners have disappeared in the landslide of a mine in the zone of the Cristinas in the Claritas, parish San Isidro of the Sifontes municipality. Until now Gilda doctor Baptist, head of Civil defense in the south of the state Bolivar who is to the front of the rescue operations, that next to his equipment they have managed to reclaim the bodies of five of the deceaseds. According to the report obtained in the Ambulatory one of the Claritas three of five corpses have been identified. One is Jose Arming Stolen Pavón (33), natural of the Carabobo state; Paul Alexander Sanchez Cova (30) and Orangel Márquez (57).

The mine takes by name the Gallera. One is a vein mine, that is to say that is not open-cast and in her they work thousands of illegal miners, inasmuch as the ministry of the atmosphere or the ministry of Energy does not count on leave authorized by or of the ministry of Basic Industries.

As the excavators are working the auriferous material in search of appraised gold, they are drilling the Earth entrails but they do not place the respective handles or supports of mine, since they would make companies dedicated of formal way to the auriferous operation.

Combined to all this, which is indicated that it has rained intensely in the last hours, makes suppose that caused the landslide in which ten miners were missing.

Meanwhile in the population of Tumeremo, in the same Sifontes municipality, the electrical service went from the 1 and 30 of afternoon reason why the communications have been made more difficult inasmuch as the majority of the telephone equipment has unloaded.

Although it has been called in repeated opportunities to the authorities of Cadafe in the city has not obtained official data on this blackout that already extends by five hours.

Corpoelec works to restore the service

Afternoon of this Thursday (yesterday), due to rain and forts winds, a tree fell on the electrical line Pebble and caused to a blackout in the population of Tumeremo and bordering communities.

According to the technical report of the Operations center of Distribución (COD) of Cadafe Region 8, to 04:10 p.m. of this Thursday, because of a strong heavy shower, a tree demolished on the line of 34,5 kV associated to the substations Callao and Tumeremo, leaving without electrical fluid the population of Tumeremo.

At the time of writing this note, technicians of Cadafe and Edelca, filial companies of the National Electrical Corporation (CORPOELEC) are in the site where it happened the failure and consider that the electrical service will be restored to eight at night of this same day

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