According to EL Comercio, the incident occurred near the city of Huamachuko in the province of Sánchez-Carrión.
The cause of the death of eight people was the collapse caused by the work in another mine, where the legal mining of ore was carried out.
It is noted that one person managed to escape.
Earlier it was reported that when a rock collapsed at a mine in the Kemerovo region, one person died.