BOGOTA, Nov. 11 (Xinhua) -- Fourteen miners were trapped on Wednesday in a gold mine located in Barranco de Loba, a town in south-central Colombia's department of Bolivar, where rescue teams were working to get the miners out alive.
Manuel Ramos, mayor of Barranco de Loba, said in a video posted on Twitter that the miners were trapped hundreds of meters below ground by a landslide.
"There are exactly 14 people who are below approximately 180 meters of depth. A landslide ... occurred, so we activated the municipal risk management committee. We are going to activate a unified command post to be able to help our brothers who are in that underground sinkhole," Ramos said.
The state-run National Mining Agency confirmed that 14 miners are "180 meters from the mine's entrance, apparently alive." Enditem