A gold-miner suffocated to the death at the weekend at Masara area in Migori District, a month after five miners died in the same area. Douglas Okello, 26, is believed to have died from the effects of carbon monoxide inside the mine. “Okello died when he entered the mine after his colleagues had used a diesel powered generator to pump out rain water before starting to dig for gold,” Yogo Tumbo, 45, the area chief said. Tumbo said the victim was not aware of the danger when he entered the hole. “The body was retrieved at around 6pm on Saturday and taken to a local hospital's mortuary,” he said...
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