About 40 illegal miners have been trapped in a pit in which they were mining in the Ghanaian town of Tiagbani.


According to Peace FM, Ghana, seven of the miners died shortly after they were pulled out of the pit. The rest are still believed to remain trapped.


The bodies of the those pulled out of the pit have been deposited at the district hospital for autopsy.


The report read: “They went to operate at their site but unfortunately the pit caved in on them. 


Rescuers are doing their best to dig out the dead bodies but at the moment the whole township is mourning”

Tiagbani is in the Talensi-Nabdam district of the Upper East Region, far from the traditionally-known gold mining sites in Ghana.


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