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Killer mines: Six buried alive from collapsed gold mine in Migori County

On lookers at a Ronda quarry in Ronda estate, Nakuru. [Kipsang Joseph/Standard]

Grief stricken villagers used bare hands, shovels and hoes as they battled to reach six miners buried alive and feared dead in a copper pit in Nyatike, Migori County.

The villagers also used mattocks and hammers to dislodge huge stones that fell on the six as they sheltered from rain inside a cave in the mineral rich sub county, where over 50 people have died in the past two years.

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