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 SARDINATA, Colombia (AP) - Crews battling dangerously high levels of methane gas have recovered 19 bodies from a coal mine where an explosion killed 32 miners in northeast Colombia, an official said Sunday.
Initial efforts to remove the bodies trapped more than 1,300 feet underground by Saturday's explosion were hampered by toxic gases in the makeshift mine, said Fernando Rosales, director of civil defense in Norte de Santander state.
"Luckily, the conditions have improved greatly and the recovery operation is moving more fluidly," said Rosales, adding that 19 bodies had been recovered so far from the mine in the remote hamlet of San Roque, 255 miles northeast of Bogota.
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