Two mining workers dead after being buried alive
Written by Jose Garcia - Photos Miguel Lezama
Thursday, November 19th, 2009
** Two others were rescued in time by miners who were a few meters working in a mining

El Callao .- Two miners were killed early on Wednesday after being boarded up, there was a landslide and both died of suffocation, the victims were over 20 meters deep. The incident occurred in an area known as Puente La Iguana route to El Chocó, in the "Fundo Los Tres Hermanos" owned by Angel Rafael Malave citizen.
The deceased entered the hospital morgue John Germain Roscius and there were identified as Jhony Alexander Tovar, age 17, who had his residence in the home sector Factory without number and Luis Enrique Manuel, 54, who had his community residing in Peru, home without number. The scenes of grief were felt in the local hospital as usual is full of family, relatives and onlookers.

The facts

As was learned in the scene that the deceased today started as usual with his usual work from early in the morning and shortly after having entered the dark place in search of gold, he heard a noise which attracted wide attention small-scale miners who remain on the property after he discovered that the site is a considerable amount of high purity gold. Other miners rushed to the "hole" and they took the two men already dead, while two others were injured after being rescued in time by their own comrades.

At the site were presented commissions Bolivar State Police, Fire Minerven, Civil Defense, National Guard and Army, the latter body cordoned off the area to keep onlookers are restricting the subsequent work of law enforcement.

The small farm owner said recently that a small group of mining workers decided to do some digging on his land to which no resistance because it is parents who are in the area looking forward to the valuable material to support their households. "There's gold but I know nothing about these activities so I let the connoisseurs in the art work in this land without any restriction," said Malave.