(28 Sep 2024)
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Solok District, West Sumatra, Indonesia – 28 September 2024
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1. Injured man taken by motorbike to nearest village for medical treatment
2. Close of injured leg
3. Wide of medical point
4. Wide of doctors and medical personnel treating injured man
5. Close of injured legs
6. Doctors checking injured man’s chest
7. Close of hand holding IV bottle
8. Close of injured mans’ face
9. Medical team treating injured leg
10. Various of evacuation team resting
11. SOUNDBITE (Indonesian) Muhamad Akmal, rescuer:
"We walked from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. nonstop until we found the victim two or three hours from the landslide location."
12. Wide of medical staff around injured man
13. SOUNDBITE (Indonesian) Muhamad Akmal, rescuer:
"When we found the survivor, he was being evacuated by the villagers in a condition in which both his legs were injured, bruised and displaced in the chest bone and an open wound on the right leg."
14. Various of people carrying bodies into ambulance
STORYLINE:
Mud, rugged terrain and lack of telecommunications hampered rescue efforts Saturday after a landslide set off by torrential rains smashed down into an unauthorized gold mining operation on Indonesia’s Sumatra Island, killing at least 12 people.
Villagers had been digging for grains of gold in the remote village in the Solok district of West Sumatra province when mud plunged down the surrounding hills and buried them on Thursday.
Several people managed to escape and some were pulled out by rescuers, said local search and rescue agency chief Abdul Malik. Eleven people were injured.
One survivor was found "in a condition in which both his legs were injured, bruised and displaced in the chest bone and an open wound on the right leg," said rescuer Muhamad Akmal.
"We walked from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. nonstop until we found the victim two or three hours from the landslide location," he added.
Malik said rescuers recovered 12 bodies, revising an earlier death toll of 15 after officials discovered that lack of communications and the remoteness of the village had affected the counting of the victims.
Informal mining operations are common in Indonesia, providing a tenuous livelihood to thousands who labor in conditions with a high risk of serious injury or death.
The country’s last major mining-related accident occurred in July when a landslide crashed onto an illegal traditional gold mine in Gorontalo province on Sulawesi island, killing at least 23 people.
AP video by Mardi Rosa
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