Ikolomani MP Benard Shinali (in green shirt) accompanied by Bushiangala residents inspect the killer gold mining shaft that collapsed yesterday killing five people. 25-year-old Joseph Mulama, a survivor of the killer Ikolomani gold mining shaft that collapsed killing five people in Bushiangala village, Kakamega County on May 6, 2021. “When the mines collapsed further we could not jump out and return to save our brothers,” he says. But to the artisanal miners it remains ‘an incident of bad luck’. Her son, James Atavachi, was working at the collapsed mine, which is one of five artisanal mines within a radius of 300 metres in Bushiangala.

Source: Standard Digital May 07, 2021 22:21 UTC