TAGUM CITY, Philippines–Two small-scale miners were killed after a gold mining tunnel collapsed in San Francisco, Agusan del Sur on Saturday, police on Monday said.
The bodies of Ronnie Lawangon, 36, of Purok 2, Barangay Alegria, and Mark Glenn Casher, 27, of Bayugan 3, in nearby Rosario town, were found and retrieved by rescuers inside the shaft in Sitio Sumugbong, Alegria around 8:30 p.m. Sunday, more than a day after the disaster, according to Senior Superintendent Glenn de la Torre, Agusan del Sur police chief.
Dela Torre told the Philippine Daily Inquirer by text message the victims were working inside the mine owned by a certain Minak Tagleong when it gave way around 2:30 p.m. Saturday, trapping them.
The shaft is situated near the Magdiwata range, where the local government of San Francisco has imposed a ban on small-scale mining several years back due to environmental concerns, officials said. –Frinston Lim, Inquirer Mindanao
20 February –
WORLD DAY OF SOCIAL JUSTICE
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Invoke Article 33 of the ILO Constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar
to carry out the recommendations of the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry
against serious violations of protocols of
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February Observances
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01 Feb: World Wetlands Day
02 Feb: International Day of Human Fraternity
04 Feb: International Day of Zero Tolerance
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11 Feb: International Day of Women and Girls
in Science
20 Feb: World Day of Social Justice
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National Health Insurance Month
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