8 miners are dead and 1 is missing after a mine collapse in Zambia

Police opportunity 8 miners person died aft being buried nether mounds of world that collapsed connected them successful an open-pit copper excavation successful Zambia

LUSAKA, Zambia -- Eight miners died aft being buried nether mounds of world that collapsed connected them successful an open-pit copper excavation successful Zambia connected Wednesday, constabulary said.

One miner was missing and different 2 survived, provincial constabulary commissioner Peacewell Mweemba said. State media reported that six of nan miners who died astatine nan excavation successful Chingola, a metropolis successful Copperbelt Province, were from nan aforesaid family.

The victims were not labor of nan mining institution but portion of a group who had been searching for copper astatine nan excavation without permission, a communal arena successful Zambia.

It's nan latest successful a bid of tragedies involving informal miners successful copper-rich Zambia. This month, 10 informal miners died successful a collapse successful Mumbwa successful cardinal Zambia. Nine men died astatine a quarry adjacent nan capital, Lusaka, successful August erstwhile a immense heap of world collapsed connected them.

Last December, much than 30 informal miners died astatine different open-pit excavation successful Chingola erstwhile dense rainfall caused landslides that buried them successful tunnels they were moving in.

Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema precocious said nan number of miners who had died successful accidents was “unacceptable.”

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