The accident at a potash mine in Súria (Barcelona) this Thursday has left three fatalities, together with two grasp’s college students from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), at its headquarters in Manresa.
This has been confirmed by the rector of the college, Daniel Crespo, after the accident at a depth of 900 meters. The Bombers have obtained the discover at 8:53 am and anticipate that it’s going to take “between two and 6 hours” to take away the our bodies from the mine on account of the landslide.
The UPC has detailed that one of many victims was doing an internship on the ICL Iberia firm with an academic cooperation settlement and the college has referred to as a minute of silence at 1:30 p.m. to precise its condolences to the households and pals of the victims.
The Minister of the Interior, Joan Ignasi Elena, harassed at a press convention that the indications make them “worry the worst” concerning the three staff contained in the mine.
The companies are working to safe the affected space, a “troublesome” entry that for now has not allowed them to achieve the victims. As confirmed by the Minister of Business and Labor, Roger Torrent, the final evaluation and management of the mine was three weeks in the past and it was closed “with none file or indications of hazard.”
In reality, in the identical mine of the Iberpotash firm in Cabanasses, two miners died in 2013. The staff died within the early hours of December 6, 2013 attributable to a landslide in a mine gallery, in an space of mineral extraction.