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Rescuers search for more victims after a mining pit collapsed in Lolgorian, Transmara South, killing five artisanal miners. [George Sayagie, Standard]
Five artisanal miners were killed after a gold mining tunnel collapsed at the Kilima Pesa mining site in Lolgorian, Transmara South Sub- County, Narok County, on Wednesday morning, trapping an unknown number of miners underground.
The victims were buried alive when the wall of the Mdomo ya Ng'ombe mining tunnel suddenly caved in as they were extracting gold, triggering a multi-agency rescue operation led by the Transmara South Sub-County Security Committee.
Narok County Police Commander Patrick Lobolia, who confirmed the incident while speaking in his office in Narok Town, said five bodies had so far been retrieved from the collapsed tunnel.
