Five Dead In Niger Gold Mine Collapse

Mohammad Ali (@ChaudhryMAli88) Published February 01, 2022 | 08:05 PM

Five dead in Niger gold mine collapse

Five people have died after an illegal gold mine collapsed in southern Niger, a mayor said Tuesday

Niamey, Feb 1 (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 1st Feb, 2022 ) :Five people have died after an illegal gold mine collapsed in southern Niger, a mayor said Tuesday.

The accident occurred Monday in the Maradi region near the border with Nigeria, where 18 miners died late last year, Dan-Issa mayor Adamou Gueraou told AFP.

It happened in "one of the mines where all clandestine mining was banned in November after a fatal accident," he said.

Thousands of miners, many of them Nigerians, converged on the Garin-Liman district after gold was discovered there last August.

The authorities banned digging after the fatal collapse in November and placed the site under surveillance.

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