Nine People Killed In Ghana, As Gold Mine Collapses

Nine people Killed in a gold mine crumble in northern Ghana this week, police stated Today as rescue operations Continues.

Injuries in small-scale gold mining, acknowledged locally as “galamsey”, are not unusual within the West African nation and president nana akufo-addo vowed a crackdown to slash its environmental harm. The present day incident in the far off mining location of gbane, talensi district, inside the top east place near the border with burkina faso passed off overdue on Monday throughout a downpour, police stated.

“we began with our rescue operation on Tuesday and through Thursday, we’ve been capable of retrieve 9 bodies,” police spokesman david fianko-okyere advised AFP.

“we suspect three more bodies are trapped down there so we’re doing everything viable to get them useless or alive.”

eyewitness yakubu musah stated the mine caved in after rainwater flooded the pit.

“there are about two or extra one of a kind pits underground here with only one tunnel connecting because the passage to them,” stated musah.

“whilst you are down there it’s very difficult to inform what is occurring out right here, so i’m positive they had no concept it turned into even raining. I don’t think all people survived.”

upper east regional minister Stephen yakubu said the mine became a registered mine, now not an unlawful web page.

“we suspect the rains may additionally have weakened the principles of the pit,” said yakubu including that a committee might look into the causes. In a separate incident final week, three people had been killed whilst an unlawful gold mine collapsed within the south of the country. Ghana is Africa’s 2d-biggest gold manufacturer and exports of the steel, at the side of different minerals and oil, power the USA financial system.

AFP