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Six security contractors working for Canadian mining company Continental Gold were killed in an explosion at an illegal gold mine in central Colombia on July 28. The blast took place in a mine in Antioquia province when the contractors surprised a group of illegal miners in a shaft they were inspecting, Continental said. One of the seven contractors survived....
On April 25, an explosion at a gold mine in the northwestern Colombian municipality of Buritica killed four miners and incapacitated a further 65 by toxic gas inhalation, according to Cesar Hernandez, the head of the country’s DAPARD disaster-prevention agency, the EFE news agency reported....
