Indonesian authorities will continue to search Sunday for eight people trapped in a rock collapse at a quarry in West Java, where the death toll has reached 17 with six wounded, Basarnas said in search and rescue agency.
The tax reported by the victims’ families is currently, the agency said in a statement late on Saturday.
The site of Friday’s collapse in CIREBON is dangerous and “does not meet safety standards for workers”, West Java Governor Dedi Mulyadi posted on Instagram.
The Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources said in a statement that it would investigate the cause of the collapse and conduct an assessment to identify any additional landslides.
CIREBON REGUCY is prone to soil movement, especially when rainfall is above normal, while the area of the collapse has a rock slope, the head of the ministry’s geological agency, Muhammad Wafid, said in the statement.
Wafid said that the undercuting method used in the open mining area and the steep slope may also have played a role in the collapse.
“While performing evacuation and search efforts, (rescuers) must be aware of the weather and steep slopes and not perform activities during and after heavy rain because this area still has the potential for additional landslides that can hit or bury officers,” Wafid said.
