All three would have been intercepted by sabers, as the men who dig under the city are known
Three members of a specialized group that was gathering technical information to cover the galleries that last December 15 caused a new sinkhole in the center of Zaruma were allegedly kidnapped by illegal miners who operate in the subsoil of this town in the province of El Oro .
They are two engineers and a military man who divided from the group that entered at 7:00 this Tuesday entered through one of the branches used by informal miners.
The three would have been intercepted by saberros, as the men who dig under the city are known, which has presented three sinkholes in the last five years.
The Governor of El Oro, Fulton Serrano, reported that military teams have been mobilized to carry out a rescue operation for the three people, meanwhile they seek to extract the other members of the group who also entered the galleries.
“The two engineers who were kidnapped are professionals from Zaruma, we received information that they are being held and we do not know more details,” said engineer Carlos Valdiviezo, director of Public Works for the Municipality of Zaruma.
More than 150 soldiers arrived in Zaruma the day after the subsidence began, which forced the evacuation of some 300 people due to the collapse of several houses.
The sector of Colón, November 29 and Alberto Castro streets has been guarded by the military since then, after the state of emergency decreed by President Guillermo Lasso, who ordered that studies be carried out to solve the problems that afflict the population of Orense and He committed to the allocation of resources necessary to find definitive solutions.
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