Gold mine landslide kills 16

Twenty-one Colombian miners died and 16 were missing in a landslide at an open pit gold mine in the southwest part of the country on Saturday, the local chapter of the Red Cross said.

Search efforts at the small, privately owned Suarez Gold Mine in Cauca province were called off due to heavy rain and were scheduled to resume early yesterday, said Colombian Red Cross spokesman Carlos Marquez.

(China Daily 10/15/2007 page9)