by Julien Besset in Montreal, David Esnault in Abidjan, Armel Baily in Ouagadougou OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AFP) — An ambush on a convoy transporting employees of a Canadian mining company in Burkina Faso killed 37 people on Wednesday, the deadliest attack in nearly five years of jihadist violence in the West African country. The impoverished and politically fragile Sahel country has been struggling to quell a rising jihadist revolt that has claimed hundreds of lives since […]
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15 die in dam collapse at Siberian gold mine
by Anna SMOLCHENKO Agence France Presse MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Fifteen people were killed and another 13 missing after an illegally built dam collapsed at a gold mine in a remote Siberian settlement on Saturday, in the latest deadly accident to hit Russia. The dam on the Seiba River in the Siberian region of Krasnoyarsk burst and flooded several cabins where the victims lived, Russian authorities said. Muddy flood waters hit the cabins near […]
Death toll from Indonesia mine collapse rises to 16
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — The death toll from last week’s collapsed gold mine in northern Indonesia has risen to 16, as hopes to find survivors fade, an official said Wednesday. Eighteen people have been pulled alive but injured from the illegal mine on Sulawesi island, but it is unclear how many were inside when the accident happened last Tuesday. Painstaking rescue efforts have been hampered by steep terrain, unstable soil and dangerously narrow mining shafts. […]
Seven dead, dozens buried in Indonesia mine collapse
NORTH SULAWESI, Indonesia (AFP) — At least seven people have died and dozens more are still trapped beneath the rubble of an illegal gold mine that collapsed in Indonesia, officials said Thursday, as rescuers frantically searched for survivors. Some 19 miners had been plucked to safety since Tuesday night’s accident and rescuers are communicating with some still buried, raising hopes for more survivors. But the rescue effort at the remote site on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island […]
Seven dead, dozens buried in Indonesia mine collapse
NORTH SULAWESI, India (AFP) — At least seven people have died and dozens more are still trapped beneath the rubble of an illegal gold mine that collapsed in Indonesia, officials said Thursday, as rescuers frantically searched for survivors. Some 19 miners had been plucked to safety since Tuesday night’s accident and rescuers are communicating with some still buried, raising hopes for more survivors. But with the clock ticking, the rescue effort at the remote site […]
Toll in Brazil dam disaster rises to 157 dead, 182 missing
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AFP) — The toll from a dam collapse at a mine in southeast Brazil’s Minas Gerais state has risen to 157 deaths after nearly two weeks of searches, with 182 missing, authorities said Thurday. Those listed as missing are presumed dead, but not yet located under the layers of muddy mining waste released when the tailings dam broke apart in the town of Brumadinho on January 25. In recent days, rescue teams […]
Toll in Brazil dam disaster rises to 121 dead, 226 missing
BRUMADINHO, Brazil (AFP) — The toll from a dam collapse last week at a mine in southeast Brazil has risen to 121 dead and 226 missing, according to officials Saturday. The emergency service for the state of Minas Gerais, where the January 25 disaster occurred near the town of Brumadinho, said the search was ongoing for bodies. All those listed as missing are presumed dead, with no survivors being found over the past week. […]
Deadly Brazil dam collapse raises fears of environmental woes
by Marc BURLEIGH Agence France Presse RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) — Nearly a week after a dam storing mining waste collapsed in southeast Brazil, the human cost is clear, with nearly 350 killed or missing, but the environmental impact is still being evaluated. Authorities fear the mineral-laced slurry released by the collapse could eventually pollute the Sao Francisco River, the second-longest in Brazil, which hosts various species of fish and has many towns on […]
Fears rise for 300 missing in Brazil dam disaster; 9 bodies recovered
by Pascale Trouillaud Agence France Presse BRUMADINHO, Brazil (AFP) — Rescuers worked overnight into Saturday searching for around 300 people missing after a dam collapse at a mine in southeast Brazil killed at least nine, but the local governor said “odds are minimal” that they would be found alive. Seven bodies were recovered Friday hours after the disaster, which saw a torrent of mud break through the disused dam at the iron-ore mine close […]
Thirteen dead after fire in Czech mine
PRAGUE, Czech Republic (AFP) — Thirteen miners died and 10 were injured after a fire caused by burning methane erupted in a mine in the east of the Czech Republic, a spokesman said Friday. “In total we have 13 dead miners, 11 Polish and two Czech,” Ivo Celechovsky, spokesman for the OKD mining company, told AFP. The accident occurred at the CSM mine in the city of Karvina, about 300 kilometres (200 miles) east of […]
Hopes fade for 13 miners trapped in flooded Indian coal pit
NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — Hope has all but faded for 13 miners trapped deep underground four days ago when an illegal “rat hole” coal pit flooded in remote northeastern India. Emergency crews have been pumping water from the site since the accident last Thursday in mineral-rich Meghalaya state, but no contact has been made with the workers believed trapped below, police say. Authorities have declined to comment on their fate, but concede the operation […]
13 feared dead in flooded Indian ‘rat hole’ mine
NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — At least 13 miners were feared dead after being trapped by flooding in an illegal “rat hole” coal mine site in remote northeastern India, police said Friday. Dozens of emergency workers were pumping water out of a large trench that was flooded early Thursday near a river in mineral-rich Meghalaya state. “We are doing our best to reach out to them. Our information is 13 people were inside at the […]
