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21:10, May 06, 2008 |
At least 15 people are still missing after rescuers found 12 dead bodies in a mining camp in easternmost Papua province, Indonesia on Tuesday, the health ministry said here.
"Fifteen people are still missing. 12 bodies have been found dead," the head of the crisis center of the ministry Rustam Pakayatold Xinhua.
Metro TV said the victims were believed to be employees of the U.S. mining giant Freeport-McMoran Copper and Gold Inc. that runs a huge plant in the remote Timika district.
The accident occurred Monday evening. Source: Xinhua
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