FOUR illegal miners have died while one survived in a mining accident in Milenge District, Luapula Province. Luapula Province Permanent Secretary Prudence Kangwa says the four may have died from suffocation in an approximately 20-metre-deep pit with tunnels on Saturday. Speaking when she visited the survivor at Samfya District Hospital, Kangwa said “experts” looked around the area and confirmed that there were no other bodies remaining. “The number of victims which I earlier indicated, I earlier indicated that we were not certain of the number of the total people who were mining. So, we have just been communicated to by the experts that we left working at the scene of the accident that they have managed to locate one body...




