A mine worker has been left with a deep cut on the knee in a drilling accident while four others collapsed after inhaling a lethal gas after a mining explosion at Gbani, a community in the Talensi District of the Upper East region Sunday.
The most recent disaster, which struck the victims just hours apart, follows a similar catastrophe that left seven Ghanaian-born miners dead from a mining explosion in the Chinese-owned goldmines in the same area in April, 2017.
Though no deaths have been recorded in the latest incident, scores of mine workers have been hospitalized after inhaling the lethal gas.
Following Sunday’s disaster, two officers of the mining company (Shaanxi Mines) have been suspended and investigations into the incident have commenced.
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