Four members of a gold mining association have died following a mine collapse in the hamlet of Nhamakwiyo in Sussundenga, Manica Province.
The casualties were in full swing and the mine is presumed to have collapsed due to heavy rains in the district, making soils muddy and susceptible to that kind of incident.
The district administrator explained to “O País” that around 4 o’clock, the ground collapsed while the four were under the mine.
The victims, three of them young adolescents and one was an adult, were buried last Thursday.
“We were able to remove three bodies on the first day and the next day, a body. And all the bodies were taken to the district hospital morgue, “explained Rosa Bias.
She said it did not rain heavily on the day of the tragedy, suggesting that the fragility of the soils had precipitated the incident.
“The President of the Association would have warned them about the danger they were having in mining activities after the rains and even ripping them out, but back and forth they went to buy other instruments and went down to the mine in the absence of their representative,” Bias noted.
She also called for more precaution in mining to prevent tragedies such last Thursday’s, which affected five families in the district of Sussundenga.
Source: O País
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