The eleven prospectors today trapped in an artisanal mine in southern Honduras may be about 80 feet deep, said the spokesman of the Fire Department in Tegucigalpa, Oscar Triminio. Triminio told Efe that eleven people were looking at an old abandoned gold in the area of San Juan Arriba, municipality of El Corpus, Choluteca department mine.
No mine is a national or foreign, but a craft company that in his time it was opened "no safety" in a geological "unstable, prone to landslides and collapses" area, the spokesman said. "They are open land and people are organized into groups to look for gold. The collapse is in a vertical entrance, about 80 feet deep," he added.
So far, the communication is established with few people "through screaming" and it is unknown what is the physical state of all trapped, the same source said, while another informant firefighters in the city of Choluteca said reporters that there has been communication with three.
According Triminio, "oxygen is scarce" inside the mine and ground instability "can not introduce heavy machinery."
"There may be a total collapse and you run the risk of trapped people die, it is a slow and difficult work that is being done to rescue them."
Rescue teams from neighboring cities like San Lorenzo Nacaome and tonight they were heading to the site of the emergency, while other staff come from Tegucigalpa, said the spokesman for the Fire Department.
In southern Honduras are several artisanal mines to which many people come to look for gold and sometimes there have been landslides as recent in the area of San Marcos de Colon, Choluteca one in which three people were killed and three others were injured, he added Triminio.
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