7th Missing Miner Found Dead in Flooded Burkina Faso Mine

A view shows one of the galleries during a rescue operation inside Perkoa mine where water is still being pumped out in Perkoa, Burkina Faso, on May 13, 2022, four weeks after a flood trapped eight miners inside the galleries. Anne Mimault/Reuters

OUAGADOUGOU—A seventh dead body of a miner missing from a Burkina Faso zinc mine owned by Trevali Mining Corp. that flooded on April 16 was discovered on Wednesday and search teams are continuing to look for an eighth, the government said in a statement.

Hopes of finding any survivors vanished last month when rescue teams found no one inside a refuge chamber in which there was a slim chance eight miners who did not manage to resurface might have sought shelter.