SYDNEY, Jan 4 (NNN-AAP) – Authorities found the body of a missing worker, after a coal mine collapsed, in the north-east Australian state of Queensland, on Friday afternoon.
An emergency search and rescue operation was launched for a missing man, after the collapse at the underground mine, at the Curragh complex, more than 600 km north-west of Brisbane, in central Queensland, around 3:00 p.m. local time on Friday.
Tony Perrett, the state government’s acting minister for mines, confirmed that, emergency responders located the deceased worker last night.
He told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that, specialist teams had worked through the night, to stabilise the site and access the missing man.
“Tragically, that worker could not be saved,” he said.
A second worker, who was safely recovered on Friday, was taken to hospital as a precaution.
The Curragh mine site is owned by metallurgical coal producer, Coronado Global Resources, and is operated by Mammoth Underground Mine Management, which said in a statement that, it would fully support an investigation into the collapse.– NNN-AAP