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The full -screen gold mine in Mali, not the current one. File image. Photo: Baba Ahmed/AP/TT
A collapsed gold mine in eastern Mali has demanded 42 victims, according to the country’s authorities. Many more must have been injured.
The accident occurred at the village of Dabia on Saturday. A representative of the local board states that it was caused by a landslide “at a plant run by Chinese citizens”.
The country’s authorities will now investigate whether the mine is legally run.
The accident is the second deadly incident in the country’s gold mines in a short time. At the end of January, a gold mine in southern Mali, with at least a dozen dead and many were missing, as a result, most of them women.
In January last year, more than 70 people were killed when an illegal gold mine collapsed near the capital Bamako.
Mali is one of the world’s poorest countries – and at the same time one of Africa’s foremost gold producers.