At least four miners are trapped following a recent explosion at Las Quintas coal mine in central Colombia.
At least four people were trapped underground after an explosion in a coal mine in central Colombia, where a similar accident left nine dead a week ago, authorities said on Sunday (May 10, 2026).
The explosion happened on Saturday (May 9) afternoon at the Las Quintas mine in Pueblo Viejo, a village in Cucunuba municipality, said Jorge Emilio Rey, governor of the department of Cundinamarca.
The explosion is the latest accident in the locality of Sutatausa, the site of another deadly mine disaster in 2023.
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