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A 73-year-old man died this Friday, in the middle of an accident in a mining shaft in the Illapel commune. The victim was carrying out unauthorized gold and copper extraction work on the lands of Compañía Minera del Pacífico, according to information from the Carabineros.
The incident occurred after 1:00 p.m., after a collapse of material on the victim.
According to information obtained by El Día, it would be Juan Araya, an inhabitant of the illapelina town of Las Cañas, who had started working irregularly a few weeks ago in Cavilolen.
“This is about a task that did not have permits and today we have to mourn the loss of a person’s life. We are very dismayed as a Government,” Roberto Vega, Minister of Mining.
The Minister of Mining, Roberto Vega, lamented the death of the individual. “Indeed, a miner who was doing work in an unauthorized sector lost his life. As a Government, the first thing is to offer our condolences to the family of the deceased ”, he said.
Vega went to the scene in the afternoon “in order to gather more information on the accident.”
The Prosecutor (s) of Illapel, José Cortés, for his part, instructed the Carabineros of the Fourth Illapel Police Station to isolate the site of the event and ordered the concurrence of PDI detectives to carry out the corresponding investigations.
The sub-prefect Williams Mora, head of the Bicrim Illapel, explained that “the victim had agreed to a pit for the collection of minerals in an artisanal way. , the ground would have yielded, covering it completely. “
Preliminary investigations rule out the participation of third parties. “It is also presumed that the mineral extraction work would not be regular, but that is a matter of investigation,” they indicated from the Prosecutor’s Office.
Body rescue
The PDI revealed that a witness to the incident had tried to help him and give him first aid, but was unsuccessful, because the place would have been covered, so he notified the authorities.
Firefighters work to rescue the body, while the detectives continue to carry out the investigation procedures, in order to clarify the circumstances in which the events occurred.
From the place, Seremi Vega reiterated the call “to all miners and miners in the region to work safely”, emphasizing that “this is a task that did not have permits and today we have to regret the loss of a person’s life. We are very dismayed as a government, ”he said.
After midnight, it was reported that the rescue work on the body continued, due to the fall of a second slab. The fire department of Los Vilos takes over, while the Seremi and Sernageomin remain in place.
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