At Bepotenten Sukuum, a farming town in the Ashanti region’s Amansie Central District, a terrible mining pit collapse incident has resulted in the deaths of four unlawful miners.
At about 4 o’clock in the afternoon on Wednesday, May 27, 2026, illegal miners at Bepotenten Sukuum were buried alive when a mining pit collapsed.
On the scene, four miners who were on the job perished.
Nartey Solomon (30), Ezekiel (22), Awudu (27), and Yaro (26), all residents of Bepotenten Sukuum, have been recognized as three of the fatalities.
Jacobu police received information about the disaster about 5:30 p.m. after the local assemblyman, Samuel Ekwam Ananse, called them, and they quickly went to the site.
According to initial police reports, the pit suddenly collapsed while the victims and a survivor were involved in mining operations at an unoccupied mine site.
A private company is reclaiming parts of that property.
The bodies of four adult males, which local inhabitants had already pulled from the wreckage, were found by the cops along with other members of the community.
The dead showed serious wounds, according to police examination. Due to the cave-in, the other three victims experienced varying degrees of head injuries, while Ezekiel sustained catastrophic injuries, including evisceration and a severed right foot.
The police crime-scene crew examined the area and transported the corpses to Jacobu’s St. Peter’s Catholic Hospital Mortuary for preservation before post-mortems.
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