Indonesian rescuers amputate miner's leg to save him from collapsed mine.
JAKARTA - Indonesian authorities had to amputate the leg of a victim trapped under rubble to pull him out of a collapsed gold mine on Sulawesi island, as the slow and harrowing rescue operation entered its third day on Friday.
"Rescuers were forced to amputate the victim's leg because it was stuck under a rock, and they were afraid that moving the rock would cause a further collapse," Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, spokesman of the disaster agency, said in a statement. "According to the assessment we did yesterday, we are not hearing voices anymore from the mining shafts," Abdul Muin Paputungan of the local disaster agency said by phone.
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