ITOGON, Benguet -- Seventy-one small-scale
miners trapped inside a collapsed private mine tunnel in this mining town were
rescued last week.
Sixty-eight men and
three women with the Dalicno Miners Association were trapped inside the collapsed
mine tunnel for over eight hours.
Residents of Barangay
Dalicno called on nearby Benguet Corporation to help rescue the miners.
BC resident
manager Antonio Buenavista deployed rescue teams and volunteer miners from the
company’s Acupan contract mining project.
The rescue team had
to open a plug-up area connecting the underground working area to reach the
trapped miners.
Lawyer Froilan Roger
Lawilao, BC administration department head, said the rescue team had to dig for
over five hours.
“We were elated
that the trapped miners were safe when our rescue teams were able to reach
them. We express our gratitude to the concerned members of the Council of
Elders and citizens in Dalicno who informed the company of the incident so that
we were able to timely deploy our rescue teams in the area to spare the trapped
miners from danger.”
Lawilao said
the rescued miners were escorted out of the underground working area through
the Level 1500 portal and were immediately brought by BC vehicles to the
Balatoc clinic for medical examination.
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