Four people have died after a shaft collapsed at a mining site in Kambi Karai area in West Pokot County on Thursday, October 2. 

According to a police report, the quartet comprising Silas Losenya, 22, Jacob Tsangana,30, Morio Akotopuo, 35, and 14-year-old Lopoghon Lopakar were buried alive after the mine caved in. 

Police officers were later dispatched to the scene after receiving an alert from NPR officer David Domongura.

The bodies were transferred to Kapenguria County Hospital Mortuary.