{"id":696200,"date":"2019-08-31T12:14:24","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T12:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n\t\t\n<p><strong>The accident scene<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\nhas now been confirmed that six illegal miners were killed in a galamsey pit at\nWassa Manso in the Mpohor District of the Western Region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nsix alleged illegal miners were trappe"},"modified":"2019-08-31T12:14:24","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T12:14:24","slug":"6-confirmed-dead-in-galamsey-pit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/08\/31\/6-confirmed-dead-in-galamsey-pit\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Confirmed Dead In Galamsey Pit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>The accident scene<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It<br \/>\nhas now been confirmed that six illegal miners were killed in a galamsey pit at<br \/>\nWassa Manso in the Mpohor District of the Western Region.<\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\nsix alleged illegal miners were trapped in the huge galamsey pit on Thursday<br \/>\nafter it caved in at about 3 pm.<\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\nlifeless bodies of the six persons were later retrieved with an excavator and<br \/>\ndeposited at the Effia-Nkwanta Hospital morgue pending autopsy.<\/p>\n<p>A<br \/>\nvisit by <strong><em>DAILY GUIDE<\/em><\/strong> to the accident scene at Wassa Manso yesterday showed<br \/>\nthat illegal mining is still rife in the community despite a war against the<br \/>\npractice. <\/p>\n<p>Assembly<br \/>\nmember for Manso Electoral Area, Livingston Ankomah, said the deceased person<br \/>\nhad allegedly refused to comply with the order to lay down their tools and were<br \/>\nstill in the business of illegal mining.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe<br \/>\nhave consistently been advising the youth of the town to go into farming when a<br \/>\nban was placed on illegal mining but some recalcitrant youth in the area continued<br \/>\nto engage in galamsey,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>According<br \/>\nto him, the mining site where the incident took place was even earmarked for<br \/>\nthe government\u2019s community mining programme and that the assembly had begun the<br \/>\nprocesses.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen<br \/>\nKwofie, who claimed to be the caretaker of the site, claimed that at about 4:30<br \/>\nam last Thursday, he saw some of the illegal miners at the site and realized<br \/>\nthat the pit could cave in so he asked them to move away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI<br \/>\ntold them to move from the area because an excavator was supposed to move to<br \/>\nthe site to clear some portions as part of the community mining programme,\u201d he<br \/>\nsaid.<\/p>\n<p>He<br \/>\nsaid that later he left the area and heard that the pit had caved in and had<br \/>\ntrapped about six persons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo<br \/>\nI quickly rushed to the site and later reported the case to the police. I later<br \/>\ngathered that out of the six persons killed only two hailed from the area,\u201d he<br \/>\nremarked.<\/p>\n<p>He<br \/>\nsaid they were aware that two of the deceased were indigenes from the town and<br \/>\ngave their names as Kwabena Muchu and Abieku Maley but said the rest are not from<br \/>\nthe area and could not identify them.<\/p>\n<p>He<br \/>\nasserted that four of the bodies were first retrieved and put into a tricycle<br \/>\nfrom the site to the town where an ambulance later conveyed them to the morgue<br \/>\nin Sekondi and added that the last two bodies were removed at about 5:30 pm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Police <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>DSP<br \/>\nOlivia Adiku, Public Relations Officer of the Western Regional Police Command, confirmed<br \/>\nthat the police in Wassa Manso received a report about that incident at about<br \/>\n10 am and when they got to Ataase near Manso where the pit is located, they<br \/>\ndetected that there was a landslide where some workers had been trapped.<\/p>\n<p>She<br \/>\nsaid the police saw a group of people busily digging to rescue the trapped<br \/>\npersons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSix<br \/>\nmale bodies yet to be identified have so far been retrieved from the site and<br \/>\ndeposited at the Effia Nkwanta Government Hospital mortuary pending<br \/>\nidentification and autopsy,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>From Emmanuel Opoku, Wassa Manso<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The accident scene It has now been confirmed that six illegal miners were killed in a galamsey pit at Wassa Manso in the Mpohor District of the Western Region. 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