At least 100 miners are trapped underground after an attack at the same gold mine in southern Peru where 14 people were killed earlier this month in a gunfight, it is reported.
A two kilometre mineshaft was set on fire at the works in the district of Atico, Caraveli, in Arequipa, claimed a miners’ representative.
Elisban Mamani Coaquira, secretary general of the Asociacion Calpa Renace, said that several miners were injured from the fire and that almost 100 are still trapped inside the mineshaft.
