Over 700 volunteers and officers are searching for the 29-year-old, the landslide has slid about 6 kilometers

2025-05-08 16:56:02Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Over 700 volunteers and officers are searching for the 29-year-old, the
Research in Klos

Around 500 volunteers, over 100 members of the Armed Forces, employees from the State Police and a group from Kosovo are searching for the 29-year-old man buried by a landslide in the Klos area.

The search has entered its fifth day, and is being carried out with excavators, metal detectors, scanners and sniffer dogs of the emergency forces.

However, there are still no results, the Ministry of Defense reports, because the landslide was so large that it covered a distance of 2 kilometers and traces of soil were found up to 6 kilometers away.

Ministry of Interior announcement:

On May 3, 2025, at around 2:30 p.m., in the area called “Qafa e Burrelit”, near the chrome processing factory in the Klos municipality, a massive landslide occurred at a distance of about 2 km. At that moment, an employee of a private company operating in the field of mineral exploitation was working with an excavator at the scene. As a result of the landslide, the worker was trapped and covered by a mass of soil and inert materials.

Forces engaged in the search and rescue operation:

Since the first day, numerous structures and tools have been deployed at the scene to find the worker's body:
* National Authority for Safety and Emergencies in Mines (AKSEM): 74 employees and special equipment such as thermal cameras and underground scanners.

* Armed Forces: 115 forces from the 1013 Burrel military unit, 12 personnel from the Civil Emergency Support Base (BMEC) with special equipment for search and rescue in ruins, 24 personnel from the EOD company (Engineering Battalion), equipped with metal detection equipment.

* State Police: 24 officers.

* Medical Emergency: Present at the scene for necessary assistance.

* National Agency of Natural Resources: 6 employees.

* Volunteers: 535 citizens and 2 excavators who are working intensively in a part of the area where the landslide occurred.

* Local structures: The local government structures of the Municipality of Klos, the Municipality of Mat and the Dibër Prefecture are engaged.
International support:

With the coordination of the National Civil Protection Agency, due to the complexity of the operation and the difficulty of the terrain, on 06.05.2025, through the National Civil Emergency Operations Center, support was requested from Kosovo with specialized search and rescue forces.

On 07.05.2025, a specialized Search and Rescue team from the Kosovo Security Force, consisting of 12 officers and 2 dogs trained to find people under rubble, joined the field operation.

Field conditions:

According to field assessments and discussions with operational managers, the landslide covered a distance of about 6 km in very difficult terrain for intervention and search. In a segment of the terrain, about 500 meters from the landslide point near the chromium enrichment plant, two excavators have been deployed to assist in digging and finding the body.

Operation coordination:

The operation is being led by the National Authority for Safety and Emergencies in Mines, in close cooperation with central and local structures.

The National Civil Protection Agency and operational structures remain maximally engaged until the completion of the operation and the localization of the missing person.


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