The four Brazilian miners who were killed when a mining pit caved and covered them at Arau Backdam, Eteringbang, on Thursday afternoon have been identified.
The dead miners were yesterday identified by police as Taigo Nunes Pinto, Ronaldo Da Silva Sousa, Joao Nelson Pinto Mands and Joao Gonsalves Martin. Jose Roberto Diaz, who was injured in the collapse, was being treated at a private city hospital up to yesterday.
In a release, the police said that the cave in occurred on Thursday at about 5:55pm, when the 30 to 40 feet deep cave they