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The country’s small-scale gold mining sector has been booming in recent years, leading to a series of deadly accidents. Ruth Maclean covers West and Central Africa. The collapse of a gold mine in the Central African Republic on Tuesday left many people dead, injured and unaccounted for, a local public prosecutor said in a statement. No death toll was specified in the statement, which said rescue efforts were still underway in Zamboye, the village in the country’s west where the gold mine collapsed. Other officials told news agencies and local media that more than 100 people were killed.
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Bertrand Be Yangué, a member of the Zamboye youth council, as others are seriously injured and more are missing and feared dead.
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The country’s small-scale gold mining sector has been booming in recent years, leading to a series of deadly accidents. Ruth Maclean covers West and Central Africa. The collapse of a gold mine in the Central African Republic on Tuesday left many people dead, injured and unaccounted for, a local public prosecutor said in a statement. No death toll was specified in the statement, which said rescue efforts were still underway in Zamboye, the village in the country’s west where the gold mine collapsed. Other officials told news agencies and local media that more than 100 people were killed.
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