Five miners died on Saturday in a elevator accident at an emerald mine in northeastern Brazil.
The elevator the workers were riding in crashed down its shaft from a height of 100 metres when the steel cable broke that pulled it up and let it down.
The accident occurred in a mine worked by gemstone artisans on the Carnaiba mountains in the Pindobacu municipality, some 400km from Salvador.
The elevator was a fairly primitive structure consisting of a small cabin suspended from a cable, the daily A Tarde reported.
-AAP
