At least sixty gold miners are feared dead in Zimbabwe after water flooded two disused shafts in a mining town southwest of Harare. Roughly sixty to seventy artisanal miners were in the two shafts when they flooded.
Frantic efforts were being made to pump out water from the flooded shafts before retrieval of the victims.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa had declared a state of disaster, as a government mining engineer, Michael Munodawafa, told reporters outside the mine in the town of Battlefields one hundred and fifty kilometre southwest of the capital, that hope of finding anyone alive is very
slim.
The government has launched an appeal for two hundred thousand dollars to be used to pump out water, feeding the bereaved families and the rescue teams on the ground, transportation and burial of the victims.
Zimbabwe is in the throws of a deep economic crisis, the worst in a decade.
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