Deaths from Indonesia mine collapse rise to 6, dozens buried

BOLAANG MONGONDOW, Indonesia --- Rescue workers used makeshift stretchers to haul victims of an Indonesian gold mine collapse through steep jungle terrain to safety, as the death toll rose to six Thursday and dozens remained trapped in the debris. Nineteen people had been rescued and about 40 were still buried as of Thursday, two days since the unlicensed mine collapsed, said Abdul Muin Paputungan, a disaster official in North Sulawesi's Bolaang Mongondow district. Photos showed a trapped miner's arms and head jutting through a gap in rocks and rescuers toiling through the night in arduous conditions. A woman who took her missing husband's ID to an emergency command post cried...

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