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        "msgid": "four-illegal-workers-die-in-gold-mine-collapse-1447893297",
        "date": "1998-12-01 00:00:00",
        "title": "Four illegal workers die in gold mine collapse",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Four illegal workers die in gold mine collapse BOGOR (JP): Four illegal miners were killed and a soldier severely injured when a shaft of a gold mine managed by state- owned PT Aneka Tambang at Pongkor mountain in Nanggung here caved-in on Saturday, Muin, a member of the local disaster post said on Monday. Muin denied media reports on Monday that the dead toll reached 16.",
        "content": "<p>Four illegal workers die in gold mine collapse<\/p>\n<p>BOGOR (JP): Four illegal miners were killed and a soldier<br>\nseverely injured when a shaft of a gold mine managed by state-<br>\nowned PT Aneka Tambang at Pongkor mountain in Nanggung here<br>\ncaved-in on Saturday, Muin, a member of the local disaster post<br>\nsaid on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Muin denied media reports on Monday that the dead toll reached<br>\n16.<\/p>\n<p>\"We have been working for two days and only found the four<br>\ndead victims and the one injured,\" Muin told The Jakarta Post by<br>\nphone.<\/p>\n<p>\"The shaft was only capable of accommodating six people. It's<br>\nimpossible that 16 workers were killed in the shaft,\" he said.<\/p>\n<p>Many people, including workers, were seen at the scene during<br>\nthe incident, but not all of them were in the tunnel, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the workers fled because they were afraid of being<br>\narrested by the company's security guards, he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Muin, two of the four fatalities were identified<br>\nas Jead, 25, and Syamsuddin, 21, while the other two bodies have<br>\nstill not been identified.<\/p>\n<p>He said the military officer, identified as Jayanuddin,<br>\nsuffered a broken leg and was being treated at a hospital.<\/p>\n<p>He did not mention why the soldier was in the mine when the<br>\nshaft collapsed.<\/p>\n<p>No rain was reported during the accident on Saturday, and it<br>\nis believed that the cave-in was caused by the collapse of the<br>\nshaft's support poles erected by the illegal miners.<\/p>\n<p>On Oct. 18, last year, five illegal workers were killed when<br>\nheavy rainfalls caused a mine tunnel at the Pongkor gold mine to<br>\ncollapse.<\/p>\n<p>Six other illegal workers were killed when a huge tree<br>\ncollapsed on them at the mining site on July 21 of this year.<\/p>\n<p>Aneka Tambang has often called for the illegal workers to stop<br>\ntheir mining activities, but the calls have been ignored.<br>\n(24\/jun)<\/p>",
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