Several dozen miners believed trapped after Zimbabwe floods
Source: Associated Press
Farai Mutsaka, Associated Press
Updated 12:32 pm CST, Thursday, February 14, 2019
KADOMA, Zimbabwe (AP) — Hundreds of relatives, community members and others on Thursday sat on piles of soil and rocks or wandered around at a site in Zimbabwe where dozens of artisanal miners are feared dead after rains flooded mines while they were underground.
About 40 people were trapped underground, said police spokesman Clemence Mabweazara. Artisanal miners at the forefront of the rescue operation said the figure could be higher. The mine is on the outskirts of Kadoma, west of Zimbabwe's capital of Harare.
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Government officials in suits struggled to avoid falling into the deep pits, gullies and water pools in the area.
"The government and the big mines close to here have not helped at all, it is all left to us but we are not experts," said Frank Mukwezeramba, another artisanal miner.
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