The Fire Department’s Special Action Group (GRAE) has recovered the our bodies of the three geologists who died this Thursday after being trapped in a potash mine in Súria (Barcelona) resulting from a landslide.
The firefighters obtained the discover at 8:53 a.m. and the judicial delegation, headed by the Justice of the Peace of the Manresa investigative courtroom quantity 6, proceeded within the afternoon to take away the corpse of the victims, who’re about 30 years previous. Two have been grasp’s college students from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), at its headquarters in Manresa.
The fatalities from the Iberpotash firm mine in Cabanasses de Súria (Barcelona) have been from Sant Joan de Vilatorrada (Barcelona), Colombia and Alicante.
The three employees have been trapped this morning at a depth of 900 meters after the detachment of a gallery and the emergency personnel, along with the mine rescue brigade, haven’t initially been capable of entry the affected space resulting from entry difficulties. .
The President of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, has conveyed his condolences to the family members, mates and colleagues of the victims, and has thanked the work of the Generalitat Firefighters for “stabilizing the gallery the place the landslide occurred and recovering the physique Of the youngs”.
“It has been a troublesome job, as a result of it has needed to be assured that the emergency companies might have all the safety to have the ability to take away the our bodies. The restoration of the our bodies is extremely complicated,” he added.
“We are subsequent to the miners who’ve seen that their colleagues are now not there. Today is a day of accompaniment and recognition of the work of the entire world,” he added.
The Minister of Business and Labor, Roger Torrent, defined that the Mining Department carries out an “exhaustive and periodic management” of the mines in Catalonia and that three weeks in the past they inspected that of the Iberpotash firm in Cabanasses de Súria (Barcelona), the place three individuals have died, with out opening any file.
For his half, the Minister of the Interior, Joan Ignasi Elena, has assured that they’ve opened an investigation to find out the causes and that they are going to take the conclusions to the related courtroom.