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The collapsed tunnel at Ran Mine in Bindura has claimed another victim after one of the volunteer rescuers slipped and fell into chasm yesterday around 6pm.
About 40 illegal miners were trapped at Ran Mine in Bindura after a disused mine shaft collapsed. Six miners were retrieved and rushed to Bindura Hospital for treatment, according to Zimbabwe Miners Federation chief executive Wellington Takavarasha.
Information secretary Ndavaningi Nick Mangwana confirmed the development on his tweeter page saying that the victim slipped and fell and he is nowhere to be found.
“The collapsed tunnel at Ran Mine in Bindura claimed another victim yesterday evening at around 6pm when one of the volunteer rescuers slipped and fell into chasm. He immediately disappeared into the depths and by 10 pm he had yet not been found,” Mangwana tweeted.
Government this week gave up trying to retrieve six bodies of miners trapped in a mineshaft at Matshetshe Mine in Esigodini since November 10.
Early this month, two bodies out of five artisanal miners who were trapped underground at Task Mine Syndicate, Chegutu, were retrieved 51 days after the collapse of a shaft.
In February last year, 24 artisanal miners died in a disused Cricket Mine at Battlefields near Kwekwe when a dam wall collapsed and the shafts were flooded.
Almost every week, a gold panner dies somewhere in the country.
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