Rescue workers have recovered the bodies of all 21 people killed in a north Colombian mining accident Wednesday morning, El Tiempo reported Thursday.
Mine official Luis Alfonso Solorzano told the newspaper that the work was encumbered by pockets of methane gas in the mine shafts.
Colombia’s minister of mining and energy ordered the permanent closure of the La Preciosa after the explosion and President Juan Manuel Santos has cut his meetings in Davos, Switzerland, short in order to meet the families of the victims.