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Five miners died prematurely last Sunday after an illegal mining pit (galamsey) collapsed on them in the Lower Electoral Area of Adumbanso, a farming community in the East Wassa District of the Western Region.
The five consist of four women and a man whose name has been given as 18-year-old Samuel Abekah aka Kofi Tawiah.
A report from the Assemblyman for the Adumbanso Lower Electoral Area, Albert Kwasi Kwakye, indicated that the five met their untimely death when the sand from the dugout collapsed on them while they were searching for gold.
Mr. Kwakye said he alerted the police immediately, who went to the scene and found the five bodies.
According to him, they were recovered and deposited in a private morgue at Funko pending investigations.
The Wassa East district is one of the notable areas for the illegal mining business in the western region.
In an interview with the Ghana News Agency, Samuel Abeka, father of Kwasi Abekah, said that his son is a JHS 2 student at Apewosika Basic School near the University of Cape Coast (UCC) in the Central Region.
According to him, although his son lived with him in Cape Coast, he had to move to Adumbanso to stay with his mother due to the closure of schools.
“Even though we are divorced, I take good care of my children and did not know that my son liked” galamsey “and the mother never told me, so I was surprised by the news of his death in a well of” galamsey “se it broke for me, ”Abekah said.
He called on the police to carry out a full investigation of the incident.
