{"id":45104,"date":"2025-02-17T02:00:36","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T02:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=45104"},"modified":"2025-02-17T02:00:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T02:00:42","slug":"dozens-killed-in-mali-illegal-gold-mine-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=45104","title":{"rendered":"Dozens killed in Mali illegal gold mine collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

BBC: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than 40 people, mostly women, were killed after an illegal gold mine collapsed in Mali on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The collapse took place near K\u00e9ni\u00e9ba, in Mali’s western, gold-rich Kayes region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The victims had climbed into open-pit areas left by industrial miners to look for scraps of gold when the earth around them caved in, a gold miner’s union leader told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is Mali’s second deadly mining accident in three weeks<\/a>, after at least 10 people were killed when a mining tunnel flooded late in January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are conflicting reports on the number people who died in Saturday’s accident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A local police source told the AFP news agency that 48 people were killed in the collapse, while the head of an industry union told Reuters there were 43 victims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Some of the victims fell into the water. Among them was a woman with her baby on her back,” the local police source told AFP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rescue workers have been able to retrieve the bodies, local sources told the BBC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mali is one of the biggest gold producers in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Accidents are common in the country as much mining activity is unregulated, with miners using unsafe methods to dig for gold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just over a year ago, at least 40 people were killed after a tunnel collapsed<\/a> in a mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is also common for illegal miners – mostly women – to try to recover gold from abandoned sites due to poverty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BBC: More than 40 people, mostly women, were killed after an illegal gold mine collapsed in Mali on Saturday. The collapse took place near K\u00e9ni\u00e9ba, in Mali’s western, gold-rich Kayes region. The victims had climbed into open-pit areas left by industrial miners to look for scraps of gold when the earth around them caved in, a gold miner’s union leader told Reuters. This is Mali’s second deadly mining accident in three weeks, after at least 10 people were killed when a mining tunnel flooded late in January. There are conflicting reports on the number people who died in Saturday’s accident. A… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45105,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45106,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45104\/revisions\/45106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}