Around 30 people were killed at a semi-industrial copper mine in southeastern Congo on Saturday after a bridge collapsed, the country’s artisanal mining agency said.
An agency official told Reuters there were 49 deaths and 20 people had been taken to hospital in a critical condition as a result of the incident, which occurred on Saturday at the Kalando mining site in Lualaba province.
Artisanal mining employs an estimated 1.5 to 2 million people in Congo and supports more than 10 million indirectly.
Around 30 people killed in Congo copper mine incident, officials say
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