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Eleven buried alive in mining pit disaster

May 18, 2015 News

– seven injured

Eleven miners are feared buried under tons of rock and mud after the wall of a pit collapsed at Mowasi Backdam, Essequibo, at around 14.00 hrs yesterday.
Seven others were rescued but sustained injuries and are being treated at Mahdia.
The pit is said to be some 70 feet deep and reports indicate that some of the bodies may never be recovered.
Sources identified two of those feared dead as Leyland Jones, the gold operation’s General Manager, of Grove, East Bank Demerara, and a Jason Trotman, a relative.
A relative said that the two men were expected to return from the interior next Saturday.
The owner of the operation is known as ‘Imran’, but Kaieteur News was told that he was not present at the time.
According to reports, 18 workers were in the pit, when the northern wall, weakened by heavy rainfall, collapsed.
Excavator operators were unable to reach the pit, owing to the muddy conditions of the area.
Up to press time, police had still not returned from the scene.
A source in the gold mining industry described the tragedy as the worst of its kind in recent memory.
Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) has repeatedly cautioned operators about working under unsafe conditions.

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