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10 gold miners killed in landslide in Indonesia
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-11-13 11:36

JAKARTA -- A landslide triggered by heavy rain killed 10 gold miners Wednesday in Indonesia's Southeast Sulawesi province, local media the Jakarta Global Thursday quoted an official as saying.

The accident raised the mining death toll in the area to 60 since early September,  official in Bombana district Musdaddad said, adding that the area was vulnerable to landslide.

Rustam Pakaya, head of crisis center at Indonesian Health Ministry, attributed the increasing large mining death toll in the area to a lack of safety awareness. He said that local authorities should evacuate miners from areas prone to landslide after receiving heavy rain forecast.

"It is a great risk to mine workers if security is not good," he said.

Also on Wednesday, two workers were buried and killed by a landslide at a quarry in East Java province after heavy rain.