TIMIKA, Indonesia, May 22, 2013 (BSS/AFP) - Rescuers have recovered seven more bodies from a collapsed mine tunnel in eastern Indonesia, its US operator said Wednesday, taking the accident's final toll to 28.
The rescue team "recovered and identified the last of the remains of the buried workers early this morning", the Indonesian subsidiary of Freeport- McMoRan said in a statement.
Thirty-eight workers were initially trapped on May 14 when part of the tunnel caved in at Freeport's Grasberg, one of the world's biggest gold and copper mines high in the mountains of remote Papua province.
Ten people were recovered alive soon afterwards but rescue efforts were hampered by the ...
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