Nigerian authorities announced that they had lost hope of finding at least 20 miners alive, more than a week after a collapse led to them being trapped inside the mine.

The incident, which occurred on June 3, led to the detention of artisanal miners employed by a local company in the village of Galkogo in Shiroro district in the central state of Niger.

“Any hope of finding the miners alive has vanished,” said Ibrahim Odeh Hosseini, an official at the government’s Emergency Management Agency. “It has been eight days since they were buried inside the hole.”

He pointed out that “the rescue operation did not officially stop, but the families of the miners, who are Muslims, performed prayers in absentia for their relatives who were considered dead.
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