By Lovemore Chazingwa in Kadoma
About 30 artisanal miners are feared dead after the mining shaft they were working in flooded at Pingo, a mining claim near Brompton Mine area.
Contacted for a comment, ZRP Kadoma district spokesperson Sergeant Crymore Muriro said they had received the report but were awaiting feedback from officers attending the scene.
“We have not received official information from scene attendants but we have indeed gotten such a report,” Sgt Muriro said adding, “We will update as soon as possible.”
The flooding is understood to have occurred after the panners, who are reported to have been using explosives, encroached into the base of Claw Dam.
After igniting their explosives, sources say, they got trapped in floods and no one managed to escape.
“I’m coming from Pingo right now. About thirty (30) people are feared to have died underground. Their shaft flooded and there was nothing we could do,” Sporo, a gold panner who works in that area.
Heavy rains pounding the city, though good news, are leaving a trail of destruction.
Only yesterday, two houses sunk into the ground at Maldon mine in Chakari and one person lost life.
