Disasters at the Illegal Gold Mines
Monday, October 7, 2024
Illegal gold mines that collapsed in Solok Regency, West Sumatra, damage the Batanghari watershed. Authorities are suspected of protecting investors.
DEBRIS and rocks slowly fell from the heights of the crumbling cliff in Nagari Sungai Abu, Hiliran Gumanti subdistrict, Solok, West Sumatra, on Thursday evening, September 26. Right beneath the cliff, 21-year-old Rezky Ardiko Putra was busy digging a hole two meters deep. He ignored his friends’ warnings about the signs that the over 10-meter high hill would soon collapse.
Rezky was not unaware that a landslide could happen. He and do
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