TWELVE illegal miners (‘galamsey’ operators) comprising 11 females and a male, were yesterday killed in a pit in which they were trapped following a landslide at Dompoase, near Wassa Akropong in the Amenfi East District.
According to the Western Regional Crime Officer of the Ghana Police Service, Victor Agbetornyor, the number of miners in the pit when the landslide occurred was not known but the 12 bodies had been retrieved and deposited at the mortuary of the Tarkwa Government Hospital.
He confirmed that the miners were engaged in their illegal activities in the area when they got trapped and their bodies were retrieved when members of the community reported the incident to the police who went to the scene and helped to retrieve the bodies.
He said the search would continue to see if there were still some bodies left in the pit and appealed to residents to help the police identify the dead.
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