By MN Reporter
The gold miner saved at Kanga mines after being buried alive for over 24 hours have said he saw God’s hand in his life.
Fred Opole, 30, said that his will to live and see his family kept him going as rescue mission took over 24 hours.
Opole, appeared weak when he pulled from the rubble and rushed to Rongo Sub-county hospital for treatment.
“I knew God would keep me alive as I was just out seeking for a better life for my family,” he said.
“We have been praying for his well being even yesterday night when we broke and left him underground and resumed this morning,” Jack Otieno, a colleague said.
He was checking on condition o f weak gold mines walls when they collapsed on him, his two colleagues escaped and called others to start the rescue.
Road contractors on the busy Migori-Kisii road which is undergoing tarmacking rushed an evacuator at the site which started the process of helping him.
By midnight, Opole was still talking from the mines when process was called off and wasgiven supper of milk through pipe and left.
“We had a pipe which gave him milk and donuts to give him strength, when we checked on him at 5am he was still alive and talking. His will to live sustained him,” Kibet Kirui, the Rongo OCPD said.
