# Colombia mine collapse trapped 25 workers underground as rescuers raced to reach them
*Event date: 2025-09-22*
Rescuers in Colombia raced to reach 25 workers trapped 80 metres underground after a gold mine collapsed in the northwest of the country, according to AFP reporting carried by CTV News.
The collapse happened on Monday night in Segovia, Antioquia, and local authorities said crews were trying to free the workers on Tuesday. The report describes the trapped miners as being roughly 262 feet below the surface, underscoring the depth of the emergency and the difficulty of reaching them quickly.
The supplied evidence does not say how the collapse began or whether the workers had direct contact with rescuers at the time of the report. It also does not identify the mine owner beyond noting that the site was owned by a Canadian firm, so this article keeps to the facts that are actually supported.
What is clear is that the operation had shifted immediately into an active rescue effort. When a shaft collapses that deep, the response depends on stabilizing the site, maintaining ventilation and finding a safe path to the trapped workers. Those operational details were not provided in the excerpt, so they are not inferred here.
The situation also carried obvious urgency because the trapped group was large. Twenty-five workers underground means more than one team of rescuers may need to coordinate at once, particularly if the collapse blocks the main access route. The report does not specify the rescue method, but the scale alone suggests a complicated effort rather than a quick extraction.
The story later developed into a successful rescue, with all 23 miners brought out alive after 48 hours, but that outcome belongs to the separate later report and should not be folded into the initial account of the trap itself. On the event date, the verified news was that 25 workers were still underground and rescuers were racing against time to reach them.
That distinction matters because mine-collapse reporting often moves quickly from uncertainty to outcome. Early accounts can overstate or understate conditions underground, especially when information is sparse. In this case, the safest and most accurate summary is the one backed by the supplied evidence: a gold mine collapsed, 25 workers were trapped about 80 metres down, and emergency crews were trying to rescue them.
The location in Segovia, Antioquia, also places the incident in a mining region where such emergencies can have wide local consequences. Even without further detail, a collapse there would affect workers, families and the surrounding community while emergency teams tried to secure the shaft.
For the families waiting on the surface, that was enough to define the day: a dangerous collapse, a likely long rescue and no immediate answer yet on how the workers would come out.
The later successful extraction would eventually change the tone of the story, but the initial event was a race to avoid a fatal ending.
