Two workers died in Cabo Rojo, Pedernales when they were buried under rocks while they were filling a truck on Monday night, 21 August 2017.
One of the workers was Haitian and the other Dominican and they both died from suffocation.
The workers made a living clandestinely loading construction material at night from the quarries in the El Puente area after they were dismissed when the mining companies Cementera Andinio e Ideal closed in Pedernales.
The gravel and sand are transported at night, as the Ministry of the Environment has prohibited the taking of the material.
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El Nacional
23 August 2017
