Rescuing Three Workers Caught in a Mina’s crash

Rescue officials in Canada are working to release three miners trapped underground in Northern British Colombia after Mina’s collapse.

The trio worked in the Red Chris Mines on the territory of the Tahltan nation, 260 miles (420 km) west of Fort Nelson.

“There was an incident,” British Prime Minister David Eby said on Wednesday. “There are three miners who are currently trapped underground. They are, as far as we know, unharmed and in an area of asylum.”

The land area in the mine collapsed the previous day near an area where the group works, a statement from the Mina Newmont Corp.

Miners – two of whom are from British Colombia and one from Ontario – managed to move to a sealed area underground before a second collapsed additional blocking of their movement, Newmont said.

The area where they moved included a gas station that has adequate food, water and ventilation to “maintain an extended stay,” the operator said.

“During the initial incident, three business partner employees worked more than 500 meters outside the affected area and were asked to move to a certain gas station before subsequent falling on the ground blocks the access path,” Newmont added.

After the second collapse, there is limited communication, so it is a “straight operation” in the mine, the company said.

The mine in which the three are trapped is copper and a gold mine with an open pit, which was built in 2014.