Colombian emergency crews have ended their rescue efforts at two coal mines in the central part of the country, where an explosion left at least 13 miners dead and one injured.
"Over more than a day, without any rest, our emergency rescue personnel recovered the bodies of 13 deceased people, and one injured person, without any (further) incident," said the president of the National Mining Agency (ANM), Silvana Habib Daza.
Habib further confirmed that both mines were illegally mining coal as they did not have environmental authorisation.
The explosion occurred about midnight on Friday in the El Cerezo and La Guasca mines located in the town of Pueblo Viejo, in central Cundinamarca province.
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