{"id":49005,"date":"2026-06-06T12:35:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T06:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=49005"},"modified":"2026-06-06T12:35:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T06:50:38","slug":"7-killed-in-coal-mine-explosion-in-central-colombia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/7-killed-in-coal-mine-explosion-in-central-colombia\/","title":{"rendered":"7 killed in coal mine explosion in central Colombia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Seven miners have died after an explosion at a coal mine in Colombia&#8217;s central department of Cundinamarca, local authorities confirmed Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The blast occurred Thursday afternoon at a mine in the municipality of Sutatausa, local media reported. Preliminary information showed the explosion was caused by a buildup of gas underground.<\/p>\n<p>Rescue teams were sent to the site shortly after the accident.\u00a0Cundinamarca Governor Jorge Emilio Rey Angel expressed condolences to the victims&#8217; families on social media and released the names of the miners killed.<\/p>\n<p>He said Colombia&#8217;s National Mining Agency will open a formal investigation to determine the exact cause of the accident.<\/p>\n<p>Mining accidents are not uncommon in central Colombia, where some mines fail to fully comply with safety regulations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven miners have died after an explosion at a coal mine in Colombia&#8217;s central department of Cundinamarca, local authorities confirmed Friday. The blast occurred Thursday afternoon at a mine in the municipality of Sutatausa, local media reported. Preliminary information showed the explosion was caused by a buildup of gas underground. Rescue teams were sent to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49005"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49007,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49005\/revisions\/49007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}