{"id":41252,"date":"2026-01-31T13:48:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T08:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=41252"},"modified":"2026-01-31T13:48:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T08:03:12","slug":"at-least-200-killed-in-mine-collapse-in-eastern-dr-congo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/at-least-200-killed-in-mine-collapse-in-eastern-dr-congo\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 200 killed in mine collapse in eastern DR Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>KINSHASA, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) : At least 200 miners were killed after several mine shafts collapsed at coltan sites in Rubaya of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, a spokesperson for the March 23 Movement rebel group confirmed on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the victims were artisanal miners who were buried, the spokesperson said, adding that children and women were also among the dead.<\/p>\n<p>The collapses occurred on Wednesday and Thursday at different coltan mines in Rubaya, an area controlled by the rebels since April 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Coltan, or columbite-tantalite, is the main source of tantalum, a rare metal used in the production of advanced electronic devices. The United Nations estimated that the Rubaya mines alone account for about 15 percent of the global tantalum supply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KINSHASA, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) : At least 200 miners were killed after several mine shafts collapsed at coltan sites in Rubaya of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, a spokesperson for the March 23 Movement rebel group confirmed on Friday. Most of the victims were artisanal miners who were buried, the spokesperson said, adding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41252","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\/41252"}],"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=41252"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41255,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41252\/revisions\/41255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}