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Kitwe Police Retrieve Five Bodies Of Illegal Miners

The Zambia Police officers in Kitwe District retrieved five bodies of illegal miners that were buried at green mountain tailing Dam.
Copperbelt Province Police Commanding Officer, Peacewell Mweemba confirmed that the accident occurred around 14:30 hours on Saturday 21st September in Kitwe district.

Mr Mweemba said the five who have not yet been identified went mining at the site when suddenly the tailing dam collapsed and buried them.

He added that the police officers went to the scene of the accident and managed to retrieve all the five bodies.

Mr Mweemba said the situation is calm at the area and the bodies of the five illegal miners have been deposited in the Kitwe Hospital Mortuary awaiting postmortem.

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5 COMMENTS

  1. This is what happens when you allow gerabos to roam into mining properties, calling it empowerment instead of creating for them real jobs. MTSRIP.

  2. This is where the LT columnist makes his bread and butter. He’ll go scot-free because he’s a praise singer. He’s got immunity together with other cohorts. That’s the rule of law we were promised

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