2 miners dead, 8 hospitalized after inhaling harmful gas.

Two Ghanaians  Thomas Baasi and Ebenezer Atia  have died after inhaling fumes from mining explosives at Gbani, a mining community in the Talensi District of the Upper East Region.

The two victims, were among ten miners said to have been trapped inside a mining pit when they inhaled toxic gases from explosives used in the minerals activity. The 8 survivors are receiving treatment in the hospital.

The miners are employees of the Shaanxi Mining Ghana Limited, a Chinese mining firm that provides technical support services to two mining groups, Yenyeya and Pubortaaba, in that area.

According to the public relations officer of the company...Maxwell Wooma .... who confirm the incident....

"Some of the people were down the pit conveying the load or stones
up; whiles the white people were also up there blasting. The gas exploded and then some of the workers inhaled it. Instead
of taking them to the hospital some of the workers were given them glucose as first aid. So some of them become totally weak and had to be rushed to the hospital. They delayed in taking them to the hospital because I am told the Safety Engineer said it wasn't anything serious so they were only sent to the Hospital the next morning. And they were given Ghc10 each to travel on their own to the hospital. Two of them are now dead and are at the morgue at Bolgatanga Hospital".