{"id":2997,"date":"2026-10-20T12:03:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T07:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2997"},"modified":"2026-10-20T12:03:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T07:03:44","slug":"14-dead-7-injured-in-colombia-illegal-gold-mine-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2997","title":{"rendered":"14 dead, 7 injured in Colombia illegal gold mine collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>14 people were killed and 7 others \u200binjured following the collapse of an \u200cillegal gold mine in southwestern Colombia, local authorities said on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The accident took \u200bplace in the rural Chambero \u200bsector of the Santa Barbara de \u2060Iscuande municipality, located in the \u200bprovince of Nari\u00f1o.<\/p>\n<p>Search and rescue operations \u200bhave concluded, Nari\u00f1o Governor Luis Alfonso Escobar said.<\/p>\n<p>The governor called on the national \u200bgovernment, the National Mining Agency, and \u200bthe Ministry of Mines and Energy to \u200caccelerate the formalisation process for illegal and small-scale miners to improve working conditions and safety standards.<\/p>\n<p>In August, 13 people \u200bdied in \u200ba \u2060similar mining accident in the town of Policarpa, also \u200bin Nari\u00f1o.<\/p>\n<p>Informal and unregulated \u200bmining \u2060is common in rural parts of Colombia, where operations often lack adequate \u2060safety \u200binfrastructure, leading to frequent \u200bfatal accidents.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>14 people were killed and 7 others \u200binjured following the collapse of an \u200cillegal gold mine in southwestern Colombia, local authorities said on Monday. The accident took \u200bplace in the rural Chambero \u200bsector of the Santa Barbara de \u2060Iscuande municipality, located in the \u200bprovince of Nari\u00f1o. Search and rescue operations \u200bhave concluded, Nari\u00f1o Governor Luis Alfonso Escobar said. The governor called on the national \u200bgovernment, the National Mining Agency, and \u200bthe Ministry of Mines and Energy to \u200caccelerate the formalisation process for illegal and small-scale miners to improve working conditions&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}