{"id":1232448,"date":"2022-10-24T06:00:46","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T06:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/24\/a-r-woman-killed-as-mining-pit-dug-under-her-house-collapses\/"},"modified":"2022-10-24T06:00:46","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T06:00:46","slug":"a-r-woman-killed-as-mining-pit-dug-under-her-house-collapses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/24\/a-r-woman-killed-as-mining-pit-dug-under-her-house-collapses\/","title":{"rendered":"A\/R: Woman killed as mining pit dug under her house collapses"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A mining pit dug under a house has sunk a private toilet in Odumasi in the Ashanti Region.<\/strong><\/p>\n
The incident has claimed the life of a young woman who was using the facility at the time of collapse.<\/p>\n
The pit, dug by illegal miners in the Asante Akyem Central Municipality, is one of many such hidden holes dug under houses in the area.<\/p>\n
Sources say several houses are under threat of collapse as a result of these hidden pits.<\/p>\n
The body of the woman yet to be identified has since been retrieved with an excavator.<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
Meanwhile, some residents in the Eastern Region town of Apinamang are intimidated and frustrated as they are being forced out of their homes by illegal miners.<\/p>\n
Activities of illegal mining popularly called \u2018galamsey\u2019 is beginning to wreak havoc and is threatening the livelihoods of residents.<\/p>\n
In the case of Joyce Wowornyo, the \u2018galamseyers\u2019 have dug around her house in a bid to take over her land in search of gold.<\/p>\n
She lives far in the Apinamang forest and has witnessed the terrible effects of illegal mining.<\/p>\n
She and other residents have had to face-off with illegal miners to protect what is left of their lands.<\/p>\n
A mining pit dug under a house has sunk a private toilet in Odumasi in the Ashanti Region. The incident has claimed the life of a young woman who was using the facility at the time of collapse. The pit, dug by illegal miners in the Asante Akyem Central Municipality, is one of many such […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1232449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10094,25474,1394,5163,3362,17842,1029],"class_list":["post-1232448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-collapses","tag-dug","tag-house","tag-killed","tag-mining","tag-pit","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1232448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1232448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1232448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1232448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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