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Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>At least four people died on December 9 after a gold mine caved-in at Runengo Village, Runengo Parish in Buhweju District\u2019s Bihanga Sub County, according to authorities.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, the Buhweju Resident District Commissioner (RDC) Nicholas Nuwagira said that they identified the dead as Mathias Saturday (28), James Nuwagaba(25), Baturaine Anatori(25), all residents of Buhweju District) Venansio Mbaga (20) from Ibanda District.<\/p>\n

The RDC said \u201cthe deceased were artisanal miners carrying out the activity illegally at around 5pm when the incident occurred.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Nuwagira added that \u201cthe accident was expected since the area has been receiving torrential rains while miners refused to adhere to warnings and guidelines issued by authorities.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have been sensitizing these people to halt mining during heavy rains to prevent such accidents from occurring but they refused to take the precautions. You can imagine because these guys are mining illegally, they even mine at night when they know we are seeing them. We have been in running battles asking them to restore the pits but they have not. All these put their lives at risk because they and their animals are losing lives,\u201d he observed.<\/p>\n

Mr Nuwagira has now called for enough police man power to avoid such incidents.<\/p>\n

\u201cFollowing the merging of police posts, we no longer have manpower. Even the mineral protection police is not enough to do the needful as far as preventing illegal activities is concerned,\u201d he remarked.<\/p>\n

The Buhweju District United Miners Cooperative Society Limited Chairperson Deus Beinomugisha said that on Saturday that the victims of the incident were not known as miners in the district.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is so unfortunate but they have not been operating under us. The biggest challenge that we have is that these people are ignorant of the law. Even when we try to sensitize them, they think we are their enemies. Such accidents can be minimized if miners are doing the business in a legal manner,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

According to RDC Nuwagira, five artisanal miners have died on duty in a space of one year in Buhweju District.<\/p>\n

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