COPPERBELT Province Elisha Matambo has disclosed that more than 85 percent of the miners who were trapped at Sensele open pit mine have been retrieved. Last year, over 30 illegal miners were trapped at Sensele open pit mine. Updating the nation on the recovery operation, Saturday, Matambo said so far, 27 bodies had been retrieved during the rescue operation, with one person being alive. “Out of the 27, one is the one who came out alive. I am sure that everyone knows that we have three sites there. There is site one, two, [and] site three. The first operation, we retrieved all the people from site three and I think it is the total number of 12 including the one...

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