A landslide on Wednesday buried the Paraiba de San Jose de Wadamapa gold mine near the town of Icabaru in Venezuela’s Bolivar state, close to the country’s border with Brazil.
Amid Venezuela’s prolonged economic collapse, informal mining operations have flourished in remote, mineral-rich areas of the country, where thousands of miners work to extract lucrative metals, especially gold, in unsafe conditions.
Venezuela’s risk management and civil protection agency said in a post on X that it was providing food, water and medical provisions to those affected, while also coordinating the transfer of the bodies to Puerto Ordaz, some 700 kilometers to the north.
The collapse of an artisanal gold mine in southeastern Venezuela killed at least 12 people, Reuters reported, citing the government on Sunday.
A landslide on Wednesday buried the Paraiba de San Jose de Wadamapa mine near the town of Icabaru in Venezuela’s Bolivar state, close to the country’s border with Brazil.
Venezuela’s risk management and civil protection agency said in a post on X that it was providing food, water and medical provisions to those affected, while also coordinating the transfer of the bodies to Puerto Ordaz, some 700 kilometres (435 miles) to the north.
-Agencies
