{"id":17810,"date":"2025-02-16T12:22:54","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T06:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=17810"},"modified":"2025-02-16T12:22:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T06:37:54","slug":"mali-gold-mine-accident-kills-at-least-48-local-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/mali-gold-mine-accident-kills-at-least-48-local-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"Mali gold mine accident kills at least 48: local sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>At least 48 people were killed in the collapse of an illegally operated gold mine in western Mali Saturday, authorities and local sources told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>Mali is one of Africa&#8217;s leading gold producers, and mining sites are regularly the scene of deadly landslides and accidents.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have struggled to control unregulated mining of the precious metal in the country, which is among the world&#8217;s poorest.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The toll at 1800 today is 48 dead following the collapse,&#8221; said a police source.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some of the victims fell into the water. Among them was a woman with her baby on her back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A local official confirmed the cave-in, while the Kenieba gold miners&#8217; association also put the death toll at 48.<\/p>\n<p>The search for victims was ongoing, the head of an environmental organisation told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday&#8217;s accident took place at an abandoned site formerly operated by a Chinese company, sources told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>In January, a landslide at a gold mine in southern Mali killed at least 10 people and left many others missing, most of them women.<\/p>\n<p>Just over a year ago, a tunnel collapsed at a gold mining site in the same region as Saturday&#8217;s landslide, killing more than 70 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 48 people were killed in the collapse of an illegally operated gold mine in western Mali Saturday, authorities and local sources told AFP. Mali is one of Africa&#8217;s leading gold producers, and mining sites are regularly the scene of deadly landslides and accidents. Authorities have struggled to control unregulated mining of the precious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17810"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17812,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17810\/revisions\/17812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}