The second miner’s body was recovered late Friday after a mining pit at St Elizabeth Backdam, Potaro, Region Eight collapsed, killing two miners.
One of the bodies was recovered earlier on Friday, and according to a report yesterday, the second body was also recovered the same day. Both bodies of the two miners, Sherwayne Joseph and Imran Blake were retrieved and examined by police where bruises was seen on the exposed parts of their bodies.
They were taken to Mahdia District Hospital where they were pronounced dead on arrival. Both bodies are at the Hospital mortuary awaiting post mortem examinations as part of the investigation.
The incident occurred at around 2:30 pm on Friday where the men were at the time were working with John Burrowes, a 38-year-old dredge owner of 111 Miles Mahdia, on his eight-inch land dredge mining operation.
The two miners were among nine workers on the night shift and they were in the pit with three of their colleagues when a rumbling sound was heard and soil broke away and started to fall into the mining pit. One of the workers said he raised an alarm alerting the workers in the pit. However, the loose soil covered Joseph and Blake, effectively burying them, while the other three workers in the pit managed to escape.
