The national mining agency had warned weeks earlier that a buildup of gases at the mine could become dangerous.

At least twelve miners are trapped inside a coal mine in central Colombia, officials said Monday night, following an explosion that was caused apparently by the accumulation of gases.

The explosion is the latest accident in the locality of Sutatausa, the site of another deadly mine disaster in 2023.

The explosion happened on Saturday afternoon at the Las Quintas mine in Pueblo Viejo, a village in Cucunuba municipality.

Officials in Colombia say that an explosion in a coal mine in a central area of the country has killed nine miners and injured six others. Officials say the blast occurred Monday at the Carbonera ...

AT LEAST nine workers have been killed in a blast at a coal mine in Colombia – just weeks after inspectors raised safety ...

A coal mine explosion in ​Colombia's Cundinamarca province killed nine workers and ‌left six others injured, the national ...

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).