Burundi: at Least 13 Gold Miners Killed in Flooded Pits

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — An official in Burundi says the our bodies of 13 gold miners have been recovered from two pits by which they had been trapped by flood water.

Nicodème Ndahabonyimana, a district administrator within the northwestern province of Cibitoke, mentioned the miners couldn’t be saved after the pits collapsed Friday night time amid torrential rainfall.

The our bodies of two different miners who had been lacking and presumed lifeless haven’t been recovered, he mentioned, urging artisanal miners to keep away from pits throughout the wet season.

Police and different authorities on Saturday unsuccessfully tried to extract the miners from the pits, flooded with water from the overflowing Rugogo river.

Such mining disasters are steadily reported in Burundi’s northwest and northeast, the place individuals mining illegally want nighttime work to flee the oversight of authorities.

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