Lives of children in Bonsa at risk as they swim in ‘galamsey’ mercury polluted river

 The water body is dotted with locally assembled dredging machines digging up gold from the water bed while the waste goes back into the river.

To get the gold from the mud, the miners use mercury – a poisonous chemical that could cause long term damage to the body.

Three years of a government ban on illegal mining activities also known as ‘galamsey’ did very little to scare them.

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