Soldiers killed nine unarmed people at an AngloGold Ashanti...
A Ghanaian small-scale miners’ association on Sunday said soldiers killed nine unarmed people at an AngloGold Ashanti , opens new tab mine on Saturday night, while the army said seven illegal miners had been killed in a firefight.
Kofi Adams, local chairman of the Ghana National Association of Small Scale Miners, told Reuters that nine people had been killed and fourteen severely injured in the incident at the Obuasi gold mining site in the West African country’s Ashanti Region.
“This is unprecedented it’s difficult to understand why this happened,” Adams said, noting that in the past, trespassers on the site had been scared off with warning shots. Ghana’s President John Dramani Mahama ordered an immediate investigation into the incident, the presidency said in a statement on Sunday, calling it “tragic”.
The government has asked AngloGold Ashanti to cover the medical expenses of the injured and the cost of burials, the presidency’s statement said.The Johannesburg-listed miner owns the Iduapriem and Obuasi mines in southern Ghana. The two mines produced more than 490,000 ounces of gold last year.Ga-Chuene clinic rape suspect arrested
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