MONROVIA, Liberia — Fellow miners have been using their bare hands to remove debris in an effort to free some 40 gold miners who have been trapped for a week, a spokesman for Liberia’s disaster management agency said Sunday. The miners became trapped after a sudden soil collapse on Feb. 10. “The gold mine is inaccessible and so the manual effort is proving difficult to get to the trapped easily,” Doe said. There were signs, though, that the rescue effort was turning into a recovery one. Amid the weekend rescue effort authorities also deployed police and military to the area, where they arrested 65 illegal gold miners who had resisted the presence of authorities.

Source: National Post February 17, 2019 15:35 UTC