Unauthorized small-scale mining, also known as galamsey, has claimed the life of a young person in Ghana.

In a viral video, some miners were seen carrying a young man's lifeless body from a galamsey pit in Enchi, a town in the Western Region's Aowin-Suaman area.

The young man, who was probably in his mid-twenties, was seen being dragged out of the water in the pit by three men.

However, it is unclear whether he drowned or died from another cause.

As he was being dragged out of the pit, the mining equipment the miners were using could be heard working.

A man can also be heard in the video telling those handling the corpse to be cautious.

After he was drugged out, the men standing outside the pit took his body away.