Explosion caused by an accident kills 11 miners and wounds four others in a legally operated in Colombia where work continued despite the coronavirus pandemic
A worker of a cementery wears a face mask as a preventive measure against the spread of the new coronavirus in Bogota, on April 2, 2020.
Eleven people were killed and four injured in an accidental explosion at a Colombian coal mine in Cucunuba, near Bogota, on Saturday, according to the local fire department. Captain Alvaro Farfan, head of the fire department of the department of Cundinamarca, told local media that the accident occurred in a legally operated coal mine, although he did not give details about the type of explosion.
On Friday, six other miners were killed in a similar incident at a coal mine in the municipality of San Cayetano in northeastern Colombia. After the new accident, the state-run National Mining Agency announced the suspension of "the underground coal mining activity" in Cucunuba.
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