Police have arrested four Chinese illegal miners at Topremang, near Akwatia in the Denkyembour District in the Eastern Region.
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Four more Chinese illegal miners arrested
The suspects are Jac Wang, 36; Zhu Jing Sheng, 47; Zhong Hongua, 36, and Li Yi, 32.
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Items that were impounded by the police during the arrest on Saturday included five excavators, two Toyota pick-ups, a box of live ammunition.
Others were a pump action gun, two locally manufactured guns and a silver pan containing gold dust.
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The arrest of the illegal miners comes on the back of an operation conducted by the Rapid Deployment Force (RDF) of the Eastern Regional Police Command to flush out illegal miners from the region.
The Eastern Regional Police Commander, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) Mr George Alex Mensah, told the Daily Graphic that the suspects, who are currently in police custody, would be put before a court, pending further investigations.
Some five Chinese and five Ghanaian illegal miners are already standing trial after being arrested around the Ankobra river in the Western region last month.
The ten were arrested by the Western Regional Police Command after they were found digging in the river Ankobra in two communities, Bamiankor and Duwale both in the Western region.
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