Police are investigating an incident which resulted in the death of Trayon Hastings, a 38-year-old miner of Kamarang Landing Upper Mazaruni and Rocky Norton (particulars unknown), which occurred last night at around 22:30 hrs at Moonlight Backdam, Kamarang Landing.
Police visited the scene at around 1 am today.
Enquiries revealed that Hastings owned a six-inch land dredge mining operation at Moonlight Backdam, and Norton was employed with him.
Yesterday at about 10.30 pm, Hastings and Norton were working alone in the mining pit when Mark Embelton, a 37-year-old miner of Kitty, Georgetown, who was in a camp close by, observed the mining pit caving in and raised an alarm.
A search party was immediately organised, which operated with the assistance of two excavators.
The motionless bodies of the two men were found this morning.
