Others 24 miners are still missing
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MADRID, 2 Abr. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The number of bodies recovered from the Lhasa mine, The Tibetan capital, in which they were trapped last Friday 83 miners due to a collapse, has risen to 59, as reported this Tuesday by the rescue services.
Others 24 miners are still missing according to the count carried out by the authorities of the Tibet Autonomous Region at 19 hours of this Tuesday, 13:00, Spanish peninsular time. More of 4.500 members of the rescue forces and 200 machines have worked on the ground to try to find the missing miners.
The miners were buried under a large landslide that occurred around the 6:00 on Friday at a site owned by the Tibet Huatailong mining company, located in Maizhokunggarj county.
The avalanche affected about three kilometers from the mining operation and displaced about two million cubic meters of mud., rocks and debris, according to estimates by the Government of the Tibet Autonomous Region.
The president and prime minister of China, Xi Jinping y Li Keqiang, respectively, They urged local authorities to spare no effort to recover the bodies of the 83 miners and to prevent similar accidents.
