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Six people were killed and two others injured on Friday after a methane gas explosion at a coal mine in Indonesia’s West Sumatra province, officials said.
Five people managed to escape the mineshaft in Suwahlunto district after the blast, two of them suffering from severe burns, said Rumainur, an official at the provincial civil protection agency.
There have been similar accidents in the area, mainly due to fine particles of coal dust coming into contact with a source of heat, provincial police spokesman Dwi Sulistiawan said.
Sawahlunto was built by Dutch colonisers as a coal town in the 19th century.
‘Coal, this gift from God’: inside the illegal people’s mines of Indonesia
In April, 12 women working in an illegal gold mine in Indonesia’s North Sumatra province were killed when a cliff collapsed and triggered a landslide that buried them, police said.
Last year six miners died when an illegal gold mine collapsed in Parigi Moutong on the island of Sulawesi.
In 2020, 11 miners in Sumatra were killed in a landslide triggered by heavy rains.
Mining accidents are frequent across the archipelago due to landslides, especially during the monsoon in the summer months.
Unlicensed mines are common across mineral-rich Indonesia, with abandoned sites attracting locals who scrounge for leftover gold ore without using proper safety equipment.
In January, President Joko Widodo ordered thousands of mining, plantation and forest-use permits to be revoked.
In August the government announced plans to redistribute the land to other companies, saying: “We want new entrepreneurs in these regions, so there will be balance.”
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epa07400223 A handout photo made available by Indonesia's search and rescue (BASARNAS) shows rescuers carrying a survivor from a collapsed illegal gold mine in the Bolaang Mongondow region of North Sulawesi, Indonesia, 27 February 2019. A miner died and 60 more are missing in Indonesia after an illegal gold collapsed on the island of Celebes, official sources said. Thirteen other injured people could be rescued at the mine, according to Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, a spokesman for the National Disaster Management Agency. EPA-EFE/BASARNAS MANADO HANDOUT BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES

=== PHOTO CAPTURED FROM FACEBOOK === IndonesiaÕs disaster agency said on Wednesday rescuers were searching for survivors after more than 60 people were feared buried by the collapse of an illegal gold mine on the island of Sulawesi.

The agency said in a statement one person had been found dead and 13 people rescued by 5am on Wednesday after the collapse the previous evening at the site in the Bolaang Mongondow area of North Sulawesi province.

ÒWhen dozens of people were mining for gold at the location, suddenly beams and supporting boards they used broke due to unstable land and numerous mining shafts,Ó disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said. Photo: FACEBOOK.

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Five people managed to escape the mineshaft in Suwahlunto district after the methane gas explosion, two of them suffering from severe burns
Mining accidents are frequent across the archipelago, in coal mines that’s mainly due to fine particles of coal dust coming into contact with a source of heat



Five people managed to escape the mine shaft in Suwahlunto district after the methane gas explosion, two of them suffering from severe burns.


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