Nine people were reported trapped in a rural area just outside Medellin Tuesday after the mine the victims were working in flooded.
The president of the local mining association told newspaper El Tiempo the accident occurred around 3:30PM in the municipality of Angelopolis, five miles southwest of Colombia’s second largest city.
According to authorities, rescue workers were sent to the site of the allegedly illegal mine.
Dozens of Colombian miners are killed in work-related accidents each year.