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Top: A townsman looks at the body of Prince Hali, a 20-something-year-old artisanal mineworker who drowned in a mining pit in Belle Yalla over the weekend. The DayLight\/James Harding Giahyue<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By Esau J. Farr <\/strong>and Charles Gbayor<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BELLE YALLA \u2013 A man believed to be in his 20s has drowned in a huge mining water in Gbarpolu County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prince Hali, an artisanal mineworker, drowned in a mining pit in Belle Yalla over the weekend. A 15-townsman jury found no foul play in Hali\u2019s death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are told that he went to wash himself and drowned,\u201d Vincent Abban, Gbarpolu County\u2019s chief investigator, told The DayLight. \u201cFrom what I have seen, there was no foul play and the body is intact.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eyewitnesses said Hali and other miners had gone to bathe in the mine pit water late afternoon last Friday. The other miners watched in horror as their colleague disappeared into the water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe saw the other man running coming and told us that since [Hali] fell into the water he hadn\u2019t been seen,\u201d said Samuel Cole, a friend of Hali.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A relative of Prince Hali, a mineworker who drowned in a mining pit in Bella Yalla, is helped from the scene after his body was discovered on Saturday. The DayLight\/James Harding Giahyue<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A search party comprising the police, townsmen and members of Belle Yalla\u2019s community watch team took a day to find Hali\u2019s body. Volunteers had to pump out water from the pit to find his body at the bottom of the pit water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of Hali\u2019s relatives wept a river as the search party discovered her brother\u2019s corpse and was helped away from the scene. “I came to visit you and this is how you welcome me,” the woman could be heard crying as she was led away. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The news spread grief throughout Belle Yalla, a township infamous for hosting a prison that held political prisoners up to 1990<\/a>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The mining pit in which he drowned was left behind by the Randell and Oretha Doe Multipurpose Company, a firm operating in that region. The company had diverted the Manneh Creek, the major source of water for Belle Yalla\u2019s 3,600 people, for a medium-scale mine<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company\u2019s operations have changed the way of life here, with water scarce most of the year, Peter Flomo, the commissioner of the township. As a result, people have turned to the pit to wash and bath, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Randell Doe, an executive of the company, did not immediately respond to queries. The DayLight will update this story once he does. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pallbearers carried Hali\u2019s body high on a platform to his grave following a brief funeral ritual. He was buried Saturday, just a stone’s throw from the ill-fated mine pit by the local tradition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Funding for this story was provided by the United States Embassy in Monrovia. The DayLight maintained editorial independence over the story\u2019s content.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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