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Authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo announced on Saturday that a gold mine in which excavators work with their bare hands collapsed on Friday, expressing their fear that the death toll would be around 50 people.
The Governor of North Kivu Iqli, Theo Nguabidi Cassi, expressed his regret at the “tragic killing of fifty people” and explained that “most of them are young men”.
But the mayor, Alexander Bondia, said that “we do not know the exact number” of victims, noting that the landslide occurred when “the land collapsed due to heavy rains.”
“According to witnesses, there are more than 50 dead,” said John Nondo, a resident of the area.
He added that the rain caused the flooding of a river near the gold mine, explaining that “the water leaked through three tunnels. When people wanted to get out, it was not possible because the water flowed in abundance and with a lot of pressure.”
The governor of the region confirmed, in a statement distributed to the media, that “the searches continue to identify our deceased citizens.”
And the mayor announced that the movement had stopped in the Citi area. He said that “the bodies of our citizens must be buried”, calling on the neighbors to go to the place “to extract the bodies.”
Young men called “excavators” work with their hands in this type of mines in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which are not invested by any party, so they try to sell the minerals that they can extract under difficult conditions.
Nicholas Kyalangalila, representative of civil society, said that “investigations must be carried out to discover the causes of this disaster.” “The authorities must take responsibility instead of imposing fees on excavators,” he added.
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