{"id":111306,"date":"2025-03-03T19:03:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T19:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/03\/03\/5-women-dead-in-siaya-gold-mine-collapse-1-missing\/"},"modified":"2025-03-03T19:03:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T19:03:16","slug":"5-women-dead-in-siaya-gold-mine-collapse-1-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/5-women-dead-in-siaya-gold-mine-collapse-1-missing\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Women Dead in Siaya Gold Mine Collapse, 1 Missing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SIAYA, Kenya March 3 \u2013 Five female artisanal gold miners died on Monday evening after a mining shaft collapsed at Lumba gold mine in North Ramba, Rarieda, Siaya County.<\/p>\n<p>The accident occurred at around 3:00 p.m. when six women were inside the mine. The shaft caved in, burying all of them alive.<\/p>\n<p>Eyewitnesses said locals immediately began rescue operations, managing to retrieve five bodies by nightfall after a three-hour effort. The search for the sixth miner was suspended due to darkness and is set to resume on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Police officers, National Government Administration officers, and members of the public participated in the rescue operation.<\/p>\n<p>Siaya County Police Commander Serah Koki confirmed the incident, saying, \u201cIt\u2019s true, we have lost five lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bodies have been taken to Bondo Sub-County Referral Hospital mortuary for postmortem examinations.<\/p>\n<p>The tragedy comes less than a week after three artisanal miners died in a similar accident in neighbouring Gem sub-county.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SIAYA, Kenya March 3 \u2013 Five female artisanal gold miners died on Monday evening after a mining shaft collapsed at Lumba gold mine in North Ramba, Rarieda, Siaya County. The accident occurred at around 3:00 p.m. when six women were inside the mine. The shaft caved in, burying all of them alive. Eyewitnesses said locals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}