{"id":303392,"date":"2020-06-12T12:52:47","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T08:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epress.am\/?p=303392"},"modified":"2020-06-12T12:52:47","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T08:52:47","slug":"artisanal-miners-looking-for-gold-die-in-underground-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2020\/06\/12\/artisanal-miners-looking-for-gold-die-in-underground-mine.html","title":{"rendered":"Artisanal Miners Looking for Gold Die in Underground Mine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Emergency Situations reports that bodies of three young men were found in the underground pits of a closed, unexploited mine near Meghradzor village of Kotayk Marz. Another 4-5 men are reported to be hospitalized for intoxication.<\/p>\n<p>Kotayk&#8217;s Marzpet Romanos Petrosyan said that &#8220;the deceased are most certainly from Meghradzor Community who attempted to enter the closed, exhausted mine as artisanal miners.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To the question of why entry to such underground pits is not banned, the Marzpet responded that such a physical oversight is not easy, however investigation is ongoing and all relevant issues will be clarified.<\/p>\n<p>Meghradzor Gold Mine is an active mine parts of which are already closed.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the question of why entry to such underground pits is not banned, the Marzpet responded that such a physical oversight is not easy, however investigation is ongoing and all relevant issues will be clarified.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10,65979],"tags":[78981,78982,78980,78983],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}