“When the incident happened, the landowner informed me that he had already sacked everyone from the site. According to him, the illegal mining had only begun recently and was mostly done at night to avoid detection. “The police came there to take pictures of the place when they heard about the illegal mining. It was about three to four days after the galamsey started that the unfortunate incident happened,” he added. The tragic collapse happened at Atta ne Atta in the Asutifi South District of the Ahafo Region late Saturday night February 28, 2026, into the early hours of Sunday March 1, 2026.

Source: GhanaWeb March 02, 2026 16:06 UTC