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The forgotten miner: For months, few remembered Tom Okwach

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Tom Okwach and other seven miners were trapped when a mining shaft collapsed. [Collins Oduor, Standard]

Tom Okwach (inset) was trapped when a mining shaft collapsed in Abimbo, Bondo sub-County of Siaya on December 2, 2021.

For more seven months, Joyce Ocholla has lived every parent’s worst nightmare.

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