One person has been confirmed dead and scores of others are feared trapped after a gold mine collapsed at Kambi Karaya in West Pokot County on Sunday evening.
The incident comes barely a week after a similar tragedy in Karon village, Turkwel, where four people died and five others were injured following another gold mine collapse.
Just days earlier, six miners had also perished in a separate incident in the same region, raising alarm over the rapid rise in illegal mining activities.
Reports indicated that the miners had returned to the site at night using picks and hoes, unaware that the soil had become loose after excavators had dug the pit during the day.
