Gold miner falls into 25-meter pit

Gold miner falls into 25-meter pit

MUARA TEWEH, Central Kalimantan: An illegal miner is in a
serious condition in hospital suffering from multiple fractures
after falling into a 25-meter-deep pit in Central Kalimantan on
Wednesday.

Sources said Ayat, 23, slipped and fell into the pit in
Murung subdistrict, North Barito regency when he was trying to
get a lump of gold from the pit abandoned by PT. Indo Muro
Kencana.

The victim was retrieved by his friends and rushed to Puruk
Cahu hospital. Hospital staff said that he sustained multiple
bone fractures to the left leg and neck.--Antara