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General News of Saturday, January 26, 2019
Source: citinewsroom.com
2019-01-26
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Eight people, including the alleged illegal miner Kwesi Bantama, were arrested in Gbani in Talensi following the deaths of 16 people in a mining pit in the area.
Five of the arrested people were workers from the Shaanxi Mining Company, according to police chief David Ayopey, told Eyewitness News the deputy police commander of the Upper East East.
"All those who, in our opinion, are complicit in the case have been arrested and investigations are ongoing … until now, we have retained up to eight or more."
"If he [Kwesi Bantama] is an accomplice, obviously he would have already been arrested, "said DCOP Ayertey on this.
Explaining why people from Shaanxi society were arrested, he said, "We have to sample information from all those who we think have something to say to each other."
The accident occurred on Wednesday near a Shaanxi mine site, but the company moved away from the incident, accusing it of being a Kwasi Bantama.
The Shaanxi Mining Company has always been ordered to stop operations in Gbani after the deaths to allow investigations.
This is the second such suspension following an incident in 2017, which claimed the lives of seven people.
The bodies of the 16 miners who lost their lives in the explosion of the Talensi mine were handed over to their families for burial.
Dr. Patrick Atobrah, medical director of the Bolgatanga Regional Hospital, said other miners injured on admission were responding to the treatment.
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