A miner was killed yesterday morning after a pit cave-in at the White Hole/Red Hole area, near Mahdia, Region Eight.
The deceased has been identified as Terry Lobert, who was part of a six-man crew that was working in the mined-out pit when it caved in.
Stabroek News was told that one of the miners saw the wall beginning to cave in and yelled out to the others. In the commotion, five miners managed to escape and soon realised that Lobert was not with them.
They quickly began digging by hand in the area where they thought Lobert might have been buried.