{"id":904366,"date":"2018-08-05T19:45:30","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T19:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=904366"},"modified":"2018-08-05T19:45:30","modified_gmt":"2018-08-05T19:45:30","slug":"five-people-dead-in-rockslide-accident-in-mexico-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=904366","title":{"rendered":"Five people dead in rockslide accident in Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mining.com\/five-people-dead-rockslide-accident-mexico\/\">Valentina Ruiz Leotaud<\/a><\/span>  <\/p>\n<p>Five bodies were recovered from a collapsed marble and limestone mine in the town of Dengantzha, located in the Hidalgo state in central Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>After a three-day search effort, rescue workers found this weekend the body of a 60-year-old local shepherd who was visiting his friends at the site when the accident happened.<\/p>\n<p>The landslide, which authorities say brought down some 300 tonnes of rocks, took place on Thursday around 1 p.m. Seven people were in the quarry when the avalanche came rolling down on them but only three were able to escape. According to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eluniversal.com.mx\/estados\/finalizan-labores-de-salvamento-en-mina-de-dengantzha\" rel=\"noopener\">local media<\/a>, some of the victims were as young as 16 years old. <\/p>\n<p>Local <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.excelsior.com.mx\/nacional\/hidalgo-llora-a-mineros-sepultados-en-deghantzha\/1256473\" rel=\"noopener\">newspapers<\/a> also report that the mine is owned by the community. It is presumed that the landslide was originated by a heavy-load truck when it drove around one of the poorly-built roads that surround the mine.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mining.com\/five-people-dead-rockslide-accident-mexico\/\">Five people dead in rockslide accident in Mexico<\/a> appeared first on <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mining.com\/\">MINING.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mining.com\/five-people-dead-rockslide-accident-mexico\/\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>From:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mining.com\/five-people-dead-rockslide-accident-mexico\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Five people dead in rockslide accident in Mexico\">Infomine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Valentina Ruiz Leotaud Five bodies were recovered from a collapsed marble and limestone mine in the town of Dengantzha, located in the Hidalgo state in central Mexico. 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