{"id":13566,"date":"2012-08-16T14:51:22","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T12:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/over-60-miners-dead-in-congo-shaft-collapse-officials\/"},"modified":"2012-08-16T14:51:22","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T12:51:22","slug":"over-60-miners-dead-in-congo-shaft-collapse-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/over-60-miners-dead-in-congo-shaft-collapse-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 60 miners dead in Congo shaft collapse-officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Mine is in remote rebel-held territory<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Small-scale mine operations lack safety precautions<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Efforts ongoing to stamp out &#8216;conflict minerals&#8217; trade<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Jonny Hogg<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>KINSHASA, Aug 16 (Reuters) &#8211; At least 60 miners were killed<br \/>\nwhen a shaft collapsed in a remote part of northeastern<br \/>\nDemocratic Republic of Congo, where local armed groups<br \/>\ncomplicated rescue efforts, officials said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The local miners were digging for gold in shafts up to 100<br \/>\nmetres (109 yards) underground when the accident occurred on<br \/>\nMonday in Mambasa territory in Orientale Province, said Simon<br \/>\nPierre Bolombo, the provincial head of mines.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>He said the collapse had been caused by a landslide.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was deep in the forest, there was a landslide, at least<br \/>\n60 people have been killed,&#8221; Bolombo told Reuters by telephone<br \/>\nfrom the town of Bunia in northeast Congo.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Congo&#8217;s minister of mines, Martin Kabwelulu, told Reuters<br \/>\nthe workers were there illegally and that their shafts were<br \/>\ndeeper than the 30-metre (32-yard) limit required by the mining<br \/>\ncode for small-scale mining.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Mine is in remote rebel-held territory * Small-scale mine operations lack safety precautions * Efforts ongoing to stamp out &#8216;conflict minerals&#8217; trade By Jonny Hogg KINSHASA, Aug 16 (Reuters) &#8211; At least 60 miners were killed when a shaft collapsed in a remote part of northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where local armed groups [&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-13566","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\/13566","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=13566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}