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Mining exercise prompted a lethal slope collapse in Narino, claiming 13 lives and injuring seven others.
Revealed On 20 Aug 2026
A minimum of 13 individuals have been killed and 7 others injured in a landslide at an unlawful gold mine in Colombia’s southwest, based on a authorities official.
“Because of the exercise happening within the mine, a slope collapsed onto the individuals,” Fredy Gamez, the federal government secretary for the Narino division, instructed Caracol Radio in regards to the incident on Thursday.
The Wednesday night time landslide comes as Colombia works to recover from a 7.4 magnitude earthquake on August 10 that struck the western a part of the nation. The demise toll from the earthquake has reached 319, with 1000’s of individuals injured, based on the nation’s Nationwide Unit for Catastrophe Danger Administration.
Colombia’s President Abelardo de la Espriella has requested the US, its prime export market, to quickly suspend tariffs to ease the burden on enterprise house owners.
In Might, an explosion at a legally operated coal mine within the Cundinamarca division killed 9 staff and injured six others.
