Five dead and four serious injured in an accident at the Cerredo mine in Asturias | Spain

Five people have died in an accident occurred at the Cerredo mine, in the Asturian municipality of Degaña, according to the Emergency Service of Principality of Asturias (SEPA). Four other people have been injured in the accident, one with a head trauma and two of them with serious burns. According to the Asturian emergency service, two people have been unharmed.

Nine people have been affected, as confirmed by the spokesman for the Government of the Principality of Asturias, Guillermo Peláez, in the press conference after the Governing Council, in an explosion in the mine from which, for the moment, the origin is unknown.

One of injured has been transferred by helicopter to the Central University Hospital of Asturias (HUCA), in Oviedo; Two others have been transferred to the Villablino Hospital, in León; and a basic life support ambulance has taken the third wounded by Carmen and Severo Ochoa de Cangas del Narcea. Even the mine have moved both the rescue unit and the canine unit. From the Government Delegation in Asturias they continue to “with concern” the accident and indicate, through their X account, that “in the area firefighters from Asturias, the Hunosa Mining Rescue Brigade and the Civil Guard are already deployed”.

The rescue group has been activated with a medicalized helicopter of the SEPA and also the other two multifunction helicopters of the autonomous body, one to move to the Mining Rescue Brigade from the Fondón well and the other to transfer intervention personnel to the place, among others, the canine unit, reports the emergency service of the Principality.

The 112-Asturias Emergency Coordination Center received a call at 09.32 hours in which they warned of an incidence in the mine, subsequently, they added that a problem with a machine had occurred.

The president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has moved through his account of X his condolences to the relatives of the victims of the accident and has wished a speed They are working on rescue work, ”said the president.

In 2015, a 40 -year -old P workerIt scholarship in this same mine after the collapse of a tunnel. The miner’s body was buried by the tons of rocks and coal that fell on the truck in which he was. The event took place about two kilometers from the tunnel entrance.