Four people were yesterday rescued alive from a big coltan mine hole after a landslide at Nyarusange sector, Muhanga district in the Southern Province, igihe.com has learnt.
At the moment three people are still missing and have not been recovered from the landslides that almost covered the mine.
According to reliable information, the victims were mining coltan by the time heavy rain fall started causing wetting of the sorrounding soils that fell and covered the path to their way out.
Before the mine tunnel was covered the four managed to escape the huge ambushing soils and survived death and as per now there is no information about the fate of the rest who seems to have been buried by the soils inside the mine.
Beatrice Uwamariya, Nyarusange sector’s Executive Secretary told igihe.com that more efforts are being invested to rescue the victims.
“Since yesterday after the incidence we have been trying our best to rescue the missing people but we had to stop because of heavy rains and resumed work today very early in the morning with the help of police,RDF staff and the residents,” she said.
Uwamariya said that there is a chance of the victims being still alive because there is a resistant rock inside and that they may be hiding in it for protection.
According her, it’s not the first time such incidence happened because even in August this year 6 people also survived death narrowly as a result of landslide.
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