In La Cienega, in Barahona province, at least four persons were injured when a explosion occurred in a rustic larimar mine located in Bahoruco. The injured were taken to Jaime Mota Regional University Hospital in Barahona.
Elias Cuevas Rubio, Andres Rubio Lopez, Francisco (no last name) and Luis Rubio Lopez were the victims of the explosion, suffering first and second-degree burns. The cause of the explosion was attributed to a buildup of an unidentified gas in different holes together with a deficient electricity system in the mine, which is located in Las Filipinas in Bahoruco.
Hundreds of families work in these rustic mining operations which are virtually unsupervised by the Ministry of Energy and Mines.
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El Nacional
28 January 2019
