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Wednesday, November 16, 2005
Missing miners buried under tons of boulders
By Ben O. Tesiorna
AT LEAST 500 tons of boulders still cover the bodies of 5 remaining miners trapped inside the Sunshine tunnel in Diwalwal.
The bodies of Rey Hugo, Erinie Francisco, Raymundo Nisperos, Tirso Miguel, and Allan Poe Eraso were not retrieved. It has been 21 days after the cave-in accident last October 26.
Office of Civil Defense 11 director Carmelito Lupo said they could not say for sure how long it would take them to unearth the bodies from the huge volume of debris.
He estimated that it would take them about 20,000 sacks of debris before they could clear the area where the cave-in happened.
Lupo said miners from the JB Management and Mining Corporation (JBMMC) are now conducting clearing operations inside the tunnel.
But he assured the relatives of the miners that they are doing their best to hasten track of their retrieval operation in time for the convening of Task Force Diwalwal.
The police regional office had formed a probe team composed of the Scene of the Crime Operation, Criminal Investigation and Detection Group, and the Regional Intelligence and Investigation Division to investigate the real cause of the incident.
Conflicting theories surfaced the Diwalwal incident. One theory claimed that an explosion happened before the cave-in and a smoking miner who went inside an ammo dump in the tunnel allegedly triggered it.
JBMMC officials however believed a cave-in occurred first, which caused an air blast inside affecting acetylene tanks or the electric transformer inside causing the explosion.
Mindanao Affairs Secretary Jesus Dureza said he would convene the Task Force Diwalwal come November 18 and the investigating team is expected to come up with a report on the real cause of the accident.
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