The collapse of an illegal gold mine has killed 19 people in
northwest Tanzania, a senior police official said on Friday.
The accident occurred on Thursday night at Kahama district, Shinyanga
region, near Acacia Mining's licensed Bulyanhulu gold mine is
majority-owned by Canada's Barrick Gold Corp. The bodies were
recovered on Friday.
"The small-scale miners were buried alive after the tunnels they were
digging collapsed. All the bodies have been recovered," Justus
Kamugisha, Shinyanga region's police chief, told Reuters by telephone.
He said police had asked for help from Bulyanhulu gold mine in the
search for survivors.
Unsafe and unregulated illegal mining is widespread in Tanzania, which
is Africa's fourth-largest gold producer after South Africa, Ghana and
Mali
northwest Tanzania, a senior police official said on Friday.
The accident occurred on Thursday night at Kahama district, Shinyanga
region, near Acacia Mining's licensed Bulyanhulu gold mine is
majority-owned by Canada's Barrick Gold Corp. The bodies were
recovered on Friday.
"The small-scale miners were buried alive after the tunnels they were
digging collapsed. All the bodies have been recovered," Justus
Kamugisha, Shinyanga region's police chief, told Reuters by telephone.
He said police had asked for help from Bulyanhulu gold mine in the
search for survivors.
Unsafe and unregulated illegal mining is widespread in Tanzania, which
is Africa's fourth-largest gold producer after South Africa, Ghana and
Mali
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