Rescuers lack proper equipment to excavate the heaps of soil that buried the miners alive.
Helplessness is evident among the onlookers at the scene.
At least six workers are still trapped in a gold mine in Migori, more than 15 hours after a tunnel caved in.
On Wednesday, rescue workers were still scrambling to break through the rocky barriers as fears grew the men could suffocate in the Macalder mines in Nyatike Constituency.
