“Two of the guys that ran there at the end, Marco and VeeKay, are two of the guys I respect the most around here. Both guys have been extremely fast, extremely talented at this place, and so you just never know,” Rahal said. “I think we improved our car. This day did not start out well. But we found a lot and I man, that beer is going to taste good tonight.”
He said as of Friday afternoon rescuers have retrieved 10 bodies, while six people were hospitalized with serious injuries.West Java Governor Dedi Mulyadi said in a video statement on Instagram that he had visited and identified the vulnerability of collapse at the mine, located at Gunung Kuda mining site in Cipanas village before he was elected.
“I saw that C-grade mining was very dangerous, it did not meet the safety standard elements for its workers,” Mulyadi said, adding that at that time, “I didn’t have any capacity to stop it.”On Friday, Mulyadi said that he had taken firm action to close the mine and four other similar mines in West Java that are considered to be endangering the environment and lives.A video showed rescuers struggling to bring out a body bag from a devastated area.
Illegal or informal mining operations are commonplace in Indonesia, providing a tenuous livelihood to those who labor in conditions with a high risk of injury or death.Landslides, flooding and collapses of tunnels are just some of the hazards in such mining. Much of the processing of sand, rocks or gold ore involves the use of highly toxic mercury and cyanide by workers using little or no protection.
Last year, a landslide triggered by torrential rains
on Indonesia’s Sumatra island, killing at least 15 people.Charles’ declaration did not say if Rodriguez-Quinones was ever seen by an immigration judge. He was arrested by ICE last month.
A Mexican man was also placed on the deportation flight. Immigration officials say Jesus Munoz-Gutierrez was recently “identified as and admitted to being a member of a criminal organization.” The Department of Homeland Security says Jesus Munoz-Gutierrez was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison.An immigration judge ordered him deported to Mexico in 2005, and Munoz-Gutierrez waived his appeal, court records show.
It was unclear why he would be flown to South Sudan or beyond when Mexico is just south of the United States.Associated Press writers Margery Beck in Omaha, Nebraska, and Rebecca Boone in Boise, Idaho, contributed to this report.