The 21-year-old was released and flown to a hospital. Authorities announced that 28 miners were able to escape to safety in a bomb shelter after the accident on Wednesday evening. They were freed from the mine and medically examined.
The mine operator initially did not want to make any statements about the accident. Ballarat Mayor Des Hudson was shocked by the accident. “We are a community built on gold,” he told AFP news agency. “Gold still plays a big role in Ballarat.”
The gold mine is located about a two-hour drive west of the city of Melbourne. There was already a collapse there in 2007, but no one was injured. In 2021, unions expressed safety concerns and authorities denounced shortcomings in the mine’s safety concept. (sda/afp)
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