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Four gold diggers dead at Indonesian mine

FOUR people have reportedly died after inhaling noxious fumes and at least 90 others been trapped in an openpit gold mine in West Java after employees of the state-run mining company allegedly set tyres alight to drive out illegal miners.

Greg Tubby
Four gold diggers dead at Indonesian mine

Asep Saepuloh, an illegal miner who witnessed the incident, told reporters at the hospital where two of the bodies were taken that the fires were started around 12am in the bottom of the pit, the Jakarta...

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