{"id":13543,"date":"2012-08-16T02:47:05","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T00:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/about-60-dead-in-congo-mine-accident-radio-report\/"},"modified":"2012-08-16T02:47:05","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T00:47:05","slug":"about-60-dead-in-congo-mine-accident-radio-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/about-60-dead-in-congo-mine-accident-radio-report\/","title":{"rendered":"About 60 dead in Congo mine accident-radio report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">KINSHASA<\/span> Aug 15 (Reuters) &#8211; About 60 miners died when a<br \/>\nshaft in which they were working collapsed in a remote part of<br \/>\nnortheastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a UN-backed radio<br \/>\nstation said on Wednesday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The miners were 100 meters underground when the accident<br \/>\noccurred on Monday in Mambasa territory in Orientale Province,<br \/>\nRadio Okapi reported on its website.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Authorities in the Central African nation were not<br \/>\nimmediately available to comment.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mining companies AngloGold Ashanti and Randgold<br \/>\n operate in the region, which is known to be rich in tin<br \/>\nand gold.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of thousands of people in eastern Congo make a<br \/>\nliving in artisanal mines, where safety precautions are almost<br \/>\nnonexistent and accidents are  common.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KINSHASA Aug 15 (Reuters) &#8211; About 60 miners died when a shaft in which they were working collapsed in a remote part of northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a UN-backed radio station said on Wednesday. The miners were 100 meters underground when the accident occurred on Monday in Mambasa territory in Orientale Province, Radio Okapi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-13543","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}