BUTUAN CITY – Authorities are still verifying reports that two miners were killed after the Kamagtong tunnel they were working in collapsed in Purok 5, Sitio Hagumitan, Barangay Bolhoon, San Miguel town, Surigao del Sur.
As of this report, fellow miners, along with barangay officials and rescuers, are still working to retrieve the bodies of the two reported fatalities, after successfully rescuing one of their companions who was still alive and brought down from the mountain.
This is the second mining-related incident this July, following the one that occurred on July 3 in Sitio Cosep, Purok 11, Barangay Bayugan 3, Rosario, Agusan del Sur, which claimed the lives of four illegal small-scale miners after the tunnel they were working in, was flooded.
