{"id":30958,"date":"2014-07-10T15:58:08","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T15:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=30958"},"modified":"2014-07-10T15:59:24","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T15:59:24","slug":"one-dies-in-galamsey-pit-in-bole-district-nr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/07\/one-dies-in-galamsey-pit-in-bole-district-nr\/","title":{"rendered":"Galamsey operator dies after pit collapsed"},"content":{"rendered":"
One person, believed to be a \u201cgalamsey\u201d miner, has been confirmed dead at Banda-Nkwanta in the Bole District of the Northern Region after a pit, in which he was mining for gold collapsed.<\/p>\n
According to reports, the deceased was one of seven miners in the pit before the collapse.<\/p>\n
The District Chief Executive of Bole, James Jaaga, confirmed the body had been retrieved by the rescue team and it has been deposited at the morgue for examination.<\/p>\n
Mr. Jaaga told Citi News<\/strong>, before the body had been retrieved, the rescue team was approached by a young boy who claimed to be one of the miners in the pit.<\/p>\n According to Mr. Jaaga, the boy, whose name he gave as “Robert,” told the team that \u201cthey [the miners] \u00a0were a seven-member team\u201d in the pit before it collapsed.<\/p>\n The six others, however, reportedly escaped unhurt and were rescued by a team consisting of residents of the area and police.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n By: Edwin Kwakofi\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One person, believed to be a \u201cgalamsey\u201d miner, has been confirmed dead at Banda-Nkwanta in the Bole District of the Northern Region after a pit, in which he was mining for gold collapsed. According to reports, the deceased was one of seven miners in the pit before the collapse. The District Chief Executive of Bole, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":5787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[54,637,9],"yoast_head":"\n