This handout picture taken and released on March 4, 2019 by Indonesia's Badan Nasional Penanggulangan Bencana (BNPB), the country's disaster mitigation agency, shows rescuers continuing operationt in an attempt to reach trapped miners after the February 26 landslide at an illegal gold mine in the Bolaang Mongondow region of North Sulawesi. AFP PHOTO / BNPB 

JAKARTA: Indonesian authorities warned Monday that up to 100 people could still be trapped and feared dead inside a collapsed illegal gold mine despite a painstaking rescue effort that has so far plucked 19 people alive from the rubble, but also seen nine deaths.

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