Death toll in Indonesian quarry rockfall rises to 18 ...Middle East

Workers and heavy equipment were buried when rocks suddenly fell at the mining site in the city of Cirebon in West Java province on Friday morning.

“Today, we retrieved one more body, which brings the total death toll to 18 people, while seven more people are still missing,“ local military chief Mukhammad Yusron told AFP.

Rescuers have deployed excavators and rescue dogs to search for the remaining victims, Mukhammad said.

“We must pay attention to the rescuers’ safety because there have been more rockfalls during the operation.”

“I have issued an order to my subordinates at the site. The company has been shut down permanently,“ he said in a statement earlier this week.

Mining accidents are common across the mineral-rich Southeast Asian archipelago, especially in unlicensed sites where safety protocols are often ignored.

In 2023 eight workers died after being trapped in an illegal gold mine in Central Java.

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