Miner miracle – Survivor says he struggled for 5 days to find way out

MWILA NTAMBI,
MELODY MUPETA
Chingola
AFTER nearly a week since dozens of miners were trapped, one miner was pulled alive out of the open-pit mine in Chingola while two dead bodies were retrieved from underneath debris.
It is a miracle.
On Tuesday, President Hakainde Hichilema’s message was “we should not mourn yet”.
It sounded overly optimistic.
But as he said when addressing relatives of the miners, miracles do happen.
The 49-year-old survivor, Mwanshya Kakoma, who was rescued on Tuesday night around 21:30 hours, told rescuers he had been struggling for five days to find a way out of one of the collapsed tunnels at the copper mine.
“I left my clothes, phone, a K200 and sacks [of copper] in the pit. I also left people,” he responded when asked by Copperbelt Minister Elisha Matambo at Konkola Copper Mines-run Nchanga South Hospital intensive care unit…https://enews.daily-mail.co.zm/welcome/home