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Mining in Colombia

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Esneyder Gutierrez

According to the National Mining Agency, an explosion occurred at the site.

This Saturday night an emergency occurred at the La Chapa mine in Boyacá. As reported by the National Mining Agency through its Twitter account, an explosion occurred at the site.

“The ANM informs that an emergency was registered at the La Chapa mine, in Boyacá, where an explosion occurred and 15 people were reported missing,” the entity said.

At the moment, relief agencies, the Nobsa Mining Rescue team, the National Police and Firefighters begin the rescue work.

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Rural area of ​​El Tambo, in Cauca.

Image of the rural area of ​​El Tambo, in Cauca.

Image of the rural area of ​​El Tambo, in Cauca.

Initial information reports four people injured, including a minor.

A strong explosion was recorded on the night of this Wednesday in the municipality of El Tambo, Caucawhere according to the first versions, several people were injured, including a minor.

The events occurred around 6:30 p.m. this Wednesday in the urban area of ​​that town.

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First versions speak of four wounded.

Likewise, residents point out that two other explosions more were heard in the upper part of the municipality.

Hours earlier, a motorcycle was activated with explosives next to the police station in the urban area of ​​Caloto, also in that department.

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That attack left no injuries or injuries.

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This is what the area looked like where the explosion occurred.

This is what the area looked like where the explosion occurred.

This is what the area looked like where the explosion occurred.

Attack shakes the center of the urban area of ​​Caloto.

Community of heat reported the explosion of what would be a motorcycle bomb.

The incident occurred near the police station of this town in the north of the Caucaat noon this Monday, February 14.

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Apparently there would be no fatalities, but there is fear among the more than 25,000 inhabitants of the municipality. There would be three wounded, but their condition has not been confirmed.

According to the first information, there is damage to the priest’s house and a checkpoint of the police station.

So far, the authorities have not attributed the attack to any illegal armed group.

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The ‘Dagoberto Ramos’ and ‘Jaime Martínez’ columns of the Farc operate in the area.

The attack is reminiscent of what happened in March of last year, when the explosion of a car bomb in Corinto, also in the north of that department, left 16 injured.

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The governor of Meta, Juan Guillermo Zuluaga (left), and the mayor of Villavicencio,

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Oscar Medina – Governorate of Meta

The governor of Meta, Juan Guillermo Zuluaga (left), and the mayor of Villavicencio,

The president rejected the fact and confirmed the tragic toll of dead and wounded.

The explosion of a cargo motorcycle in the 21st Battalion of Granada, Meta, left two dead and four wounded.

After the fact, the governor of Meta, Juan Guillermo Zuluaga, rejected the attack.

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“I repudiate and condemn the terrorist attack on the 21 Vargas Battalion in Granada. 2 dead and 4 wounded is the unfortunate result of this cowardly attack. Today more than ever security efforts must be redoubled. We do not want our department to become a theater of war again“said the president.

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The mayor of Villavicencio also spoke. “The new act of violence that occurs in our department is unfortunate. Meta and the country cannot rewrite stories of pain and violence that continue to take lives today,” said Felipe Harman.

In that region of the country, the FARC dissidents are present, to whom an attack is also attributed on Tuesday night in the Carabineros Police fort in Calamar (Guaviare), where a Police auxiliary was injured.

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The men were working when the emergency occurred. Reference image.

The men were working when the emergency occurred. Reference image.

The National Mining Agency confirmed the rescue of the five lifeless bodies.

Around nine o’clock at night on Friday, February 4, an explosion was recorded inside a mine located in the municipality of Samacá in Boyacá.

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“5 missing persons. With our team of rescuers, we began rescue work in a joint effort with Firefighters, National Police, CMGRD Samacá (firefighters and ESE),” the National Mining Agency (ANM) said at the time.

However, after more than five hours of search and rescue efforts, they reached the place where the trapped miners were.

“The ANM is allowed to inform, that unfortunately were found lifelessof the five missing workers, we stand in solidarity with the affected families,” they indicated from the entity.

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This tragedy mourns five families in the municipality of Boyacá.

“We thank the team of rescuers, who carried out work and who are in the process of rescuing the bodies, to be delivered to the mine entrance. Joint work with Firefighters, National Police, CMGRD Samacá (firefighters and ESE),” they said in the account from Twitter of the ANM.

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Martín Caparrós says that he distrusts those who have already governed Latin America and claim to be from the left, but he is “much more excited about the Chilean case” with people who “do not come from sectors of traditional political activity” but are “young people who come from fighting it on the street”.

In this sense, Chile, with the election of Gabriel Boric as president, “is the first result of something that has been happening in the region for all these years, which were the street explosions, which, as they did not have a clear project, dissolved,” The Argentine writer and journalist who participates in the Hay Festival in Cartagena de Indias assures EFE in an interview.

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