JAKARTA - The Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) of Bangka, Bangka Belitung Islands, stated that six tin ore workers in the Pemali Bangka District, who died, were known to be from Pandeglang, Banten.
"Six tin ore miners died due to being buried by a landslide, identified as coming from Pandeglang, Banten," said the Head of the Bangka BPBD, Rusmansyah, as reported by ANTARA, Wednesday, February 4.
The six victims from Pandeglang were on behalf of Abat, Samson, Sanam, Abeng, Alex and Manaf. Meanwhile, one worker and the same address has not been found on behalf of Soleh.
"The SAR team is still continuing to search for Soleh at the scene by deploying a joint team using heavy equipment," he explained.
In addition to the six workers found dead and one worker is still in the search process. It is known that there are four workers from Padenglang who survived the incident, namely, Ecek, Asep, Mani and Sainan.
The tragedy of the tin ore mine accident that claimed the lives of the victims occurred on Monday (2/2) at around 17.00 WIB. Tin ore mining activities on the area of the Mining Business Permit (IUP) of PT Timah owned by the residents of Pemali Bangka and allegedly did not have a permit for official documents.
The SAR team in the field encountered obstacles in the search for the remaining victims, one of which was due to the condition of shifting soil structures in the mine area. The search process uses heavy equipment such as excavators and other supporting equipment to speed up the search process.
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