The incident took place at a coal mine in Colombia on Monday, May 4 at 4:00 p.m. local time ...

The explosion happened on Saturday afternoon at the Las Quintas mine in Pueblo Viejo, a village in Cucunuba municipality.

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The national mining agency had warned weeks earlier that a buildup of gases at the mine could become dangerous.

A coal mine explosion in central Colombia on Monday killed nine people, the national mining authority said, less than a month ...

At least twelve miners are trapped inside a coal mine in central Colombia, officials said Monday night, following an explosion that was caused apparently by the accumulation of gases.

Officials in Colombia say that an explosion in a coal mine in a central area of the country has killed nine miners and injured six others.

TREMONT, Pa. (AP) -- A coal mine accident, possibly an explosion, killed a miner Monday, but five others escaped, authorities said. The incident happened 2,300 feet underground at the R&D Coal Co.

At least four people were trapped underground after an explosion in a coal mine in central Colombia, where a similar accident left nine dead a week ago, authorities said on Sunday (May 10, 2026).

A coal mine explosion in ​Colombia's Cundinamarca province killed nine workers and ‌left six others injured, the national ...