SunStar Unstable ground hinders search, retrieval efforts
ON SHAKY GROUND. In this photo taken in December 2020, a habal-habal driver points to the crown of the landslide at the Carmen Pit in the Toledo copper mines. / SUNSTAR FILE
+ January 30, 2021 MORE than a month after a deadly landslide hit the Carmen Pit of Carmen Copper Corp. in Toledo City, authorities have yet to recover the bodies of six missing workers.
Biga Barangay Captain Pedro Sepada, Jr. on Friday, Jan. 29, 2021, said the search and retrieval operations are challenging because the ground remains unstable and the cracks are widening.
“The search and retrieval operations continue. But the ground is still unstable. A portion above the landslide continues to move,” he said.
SunStar Toledo City Government relocates families living near mining pit’s collapsed area
STILL SEARCHING. Emergency responders led by the Philippine Coast Guard conduct on Monday, Dec. 28, 2020, search and retrieval operations in the collapsed portion of Carmen Pit, an open mining pit of Carmen Copper Corp., to retrieve the six miners who remain missing after a landslide hit the pit on Dec. 21. / TOLEDO CITY PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE
+ December 29, 2020 THE Toledo City Government in southwestern Cebu has evacuated 400 families, composed of 2,000 individuals, living near the collapsed portion of an open mining pit owned by Carmen Copper Corp.
John Roseller Layan, Toledo City public information officer, said the evacuation of the families living in Barangay Biga began on Sunday, Dec. 27, 2020.
SunStar Toledo City Government relocates families living near mining pit’s collapsed area
STILL SEARCHING. Emergency responders led by the Philippine Coast Guard conduct on Monday, Dec. 28, 2020, search and retrieval operations in the collapsed portion of Carmen Pit, an open mining pit of Carmen Copper Corp., to retrieve the six miners who remain missing after a landslide hit the pit on Dec. 21. / TOLEDO CITY PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE
+ December 29, 2020 THE Toledo City Government in southwestern Cebu has evacuated 400 families, composed of 2,000 individuals, living near the collapsed portion of an open mining pit owned by Carmen Copper Corp.
John Roseller Layan, Toledo City public information officer, said the evacuation of the families living in Barangay Biga began on Sunday, Dec. 27, 2020.