The pit collapsed on the miners The body of a missing small-scale miner was retrieved from one of the mining pits that got flooded and trapped 17 men at Gbane, a mining community in the Talensi District of the Upper East Region.
He was among 10 miners killed when a downpour on Monday night flooded the mining pits at the site.
The bodies were retrieved by some of their colleagues and handed over to the Police, who released them to their families for burial.
Mr Robert Tampua Boazor, the Upper East Regional Chairman of the Small-Scale Miners Association, confirmed the retrieval of the body of the missing miner in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) at Gbane.
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