A galamsey operator lost his life over the weekend when he fell into one of the numerous abandoned mining pits at Tokoto, a community near Wassa Akropong in the Wassa Amenfi East District of the Western Region.
The police said the deceased, Kwame George, 48, was said to have lost balance and fell into the pit. His cries for help had not been heard by his colleagues.
According to his colleagues, the pit was full of sharp rocks.
When his colleagues noticed his absence and went in search of him, he was already dead.
According to the police, the deceased had gone prospecting for gold and after the day’s business about 5 p.m., he had gone to a pond to wash himself.
They said his cries for help did not get to his colleagues, since the pit was a distance from where they had been prospecting and, therefore, he could not get help on time.
His colleagues, the police said, noticed his absence because his tools had not been fully packed. That was when they decided to look for him, only to realise that his clothes were at the edge of the pit.
A search conducted later indicated that George had died in the pit.
The incident was then reported to the police and the body has been deposited at the Wassa Akropong Government Hospital mortuary.
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