Graphic Online
BY: Samuel Kyei-Boateng
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An illegal miner has died while three others sustained serious injuries through a dynamite explosion at Akyem Amenam in the Birim North District in the Eastern Region last Friday.
The body of the miner, whose name was given only as Marfo, aged about 45 years, has been deposited at the morgue of the New Abirem Government Hospital for autopsy.
The three injured persons who are yet to be identified have been admitted to the same hospital for treatment.
According to a police source, the four illegal miners were trapped in a mining pit when they returned to check on the state of the dynamite they had planted beneath the rocks.