Santa Bárbara de Iscuandé14 people died in a landslide at an unlicensed gold pit.
Armed groups control gold in Nariño, in Colombia’s southwest, and hampered rescuers, the governor’s office said.
Informal pits lack structural reinforcement, and a similar collapse killed 13 people in Policarpa, also in Nariño, in August.
Governor Luis Alfonso Escobar says rescue is over, but a disaster official counts 12 to 15 miners still missing.
Escobar asked Bogotá and the National Mining Agency to speed formalisation of small-scale miners.
How each outlet framed it
- Al Jazeera Online leans critical
- Reuters
- cites the governor's call to formalize small-scale miners via the National Mining Agency and Ministry of Mines
- TRT World leans critical
- frames the disaster around armed groups controlling the gold trade and targeted killings of residents accused of gold theft
Sources: Al Jazeera Online, Reuters, TRT World