As a result of the incident, an illegal digger was killed. At the moment about 20 gold miners remain under the rubble.
As reported by the police of the Samarkand region, about 30 illegal gold miners managed to get out of the mine by themselves.
The police also said that the mine had previously belonged to the state Navoisk Mining and Metallurgical Combine. Already now there work illegally.
Local residents first tried to save the victims themselves and did not appeal to the police, since the extraction of gold from an abandoned mine is illegal.
Recall, as reported URA-Inform, in the city occupied by the Russian troops Makeevka Donetsk region on November 27, 2017, there was a collapse at the mine "Yasinovskaya-Glubokaya". As a result of the incident, under the rubble were two miners.