Authorities in Indonesia say the risk to rescuers from constant rockfall has ended the search for the dozens of victims of a gold mine collapse, leaving an unknown number buried in the mine.
Rescuers carry a survivor of a collapsed mine on a stretcher through a steep terrain in Bolaang Mongondow, North Sulawesi, Indonesia, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019. Rescuers have passed water and food to some of the dozens of people trapped in a collapsed Indonesian gold mine, an official said Thursday, calling the gruelling rescue effort a race against time, in the remote inaccessible location.
Budi Purnama, director of operations at the national agency, said the remains of 27 people have been recovered, based on intact bodies and body parts found. Indonesia's disaster agency has said as many as 100 people were in the mine when it collapsed Feb. 26. He said a crack in the earth also continued to spread, endangering the entire area if the rescue operation, which involved trying to move huge rocks, continued.
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