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RESCUERS are still searching today for at least 15 people missing after an illegal gold mine collapsed in south-west Colombia.
By nightfall yesterday rescue workers had recovered three bodies and three injured people, but they are still searching for another 15.
Police, troops, civil defence and the Red Cross were aiding in rescue efforts, but an official with the firefighters at the scene said that it was already too late.
“You have to eliminate the idea of survivors,” he said.
“There is no possibility that someone has survived because huge amounts of mud and earth fell on those people.”
The collapse occurred shortly before midnight on Wednesday in a rural area near Santander de Quilichao.
Cauca Province Governor Temistocles Ortega said that illegal miners customarily use machinery to open huge holes to extract gold and one of the walls of a hole had fallen in.
