PARACALE, Camarines Norte,
Philippines—Police in two separate operations arrested a Chinese national and
six small-scale miners for illegal mining in Labo town here on Friday.
Supt. Efren Tublan, Labo police
chief, said Xiao Li, 38, was working in Sitio Naboogan, Barangay Daguit, when
arrested past 7am.
Tublan said six others—Erick
Espinida, 22; Henry Nidea, 34; Henry Ferrer, 52; Eddie Lola, 45; Ruel Nidea,
22; and Rocky Villanuieva, 32—were arrested in Sitio Maligaya, Barangay
Palanas, on the same day. They were working in a pit owned by a certain Victor
Demin.
Recovered from the illegal miners
were a dynamo, hose, compressor and a sack of iron ore.
The arrests came as authorities
continue to search for the bodies of three miners who died after a blasting
accident led to the flooding of at least seven pits in the town. - Inquirer
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