NIMBA COUNTY, Feb. 15 -- At least seven bodies have been recovered from the Kartee gold mines located in Gboanipea where about 40 persons are believed to be buried underground after the mine collapsed.

New developments from the Technical Steering Committee set up to manage the Gbanipea's Goldmines Disaster show that all persons unaccounted for since the February 10, 2019 collapse of loose soils in Gbonipea, Tappita District, Nimba County are or may be feared dead.

On the morning of February 10, 2019, a disaster occurred in Gbanipea, about 10 kilometers away from Tappita City, Tappita District, Nimba County which resulted into the collapse of loose soils at a gold pit in an alleged illegal goldmine in which about 40 persons were entrappe...