Rescue workers in the state of Saxony-Anhalt have given up searching for three missing victims of Saturday's landslide, saying there's no hope of finding them alive. The victims were swept to their deaths at 4:40 a.m. on Saturday morning when their homes suddenly collapsed into a man-made lake on the site of a former open-cast mine in Nachterstedt, around 170 kilometers south-west of Berlin. At present, the village remains sealed-off, as further cracks in the ground were discovered, raising fears of a further collapse.
Aerial view of the disaster area. The Concordia coal mine had advanced to 120 meters from the nearest home since it was closed in 1991 and flooded.
As for the mechanism of the slide, experts suggested that a rise in ground-water levels at the site may have caused the disaster. Another possible cause is heavy overnight rain, according to a spokesman of the company (LMBV) formerly in charge of the mine.
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