Two persons have been confirmed dead following the collapse of a mining pit in Mpasatia, located in the Atwima Mponua District of the Ashanti Region.
An unconfirmed number of individuals are still trapped underground, as rescue efforts, which began Tuesday morning, have yielded no results.
Salifu Karim, the Assembly Member for Mpasatia Ahembronum Electoral Area, confirmed the incident to Citi News.
“For now, we have removed two people who have passed on. We have received rumours that there were many people around the place, but eyewitnesses confirmed that there were about five people in the pit.
“We have got hold of two persons, but we are yet to retrieve the rest from the pit. The incident happened around 8:30 in the morning.”
The bodies of the deceased have since been deposited at the Afari Community Mortuary.