Gold mine collapse kills at least 100 people in C/Africa

A landslide at an illegal gold mine has killed at least 100 people in the Central African Republic on the border with Cameroon, local sources told AFP on Wednesday.
Search operations are still under way after the accident at the Zamboye mining site, about 50 kilometres (31 miles) from the town of Baboua, on Tuesday afternoon.
Several local sources said that around 100 people had died and many others were injured in the latest of many such accidents in the mineral-rich nation.
“At this stage it’s difficult for us to establish a formal toll,” Baboua elected official Laurent Ngon Baba told AFP early on Wednesday.
At least four of the victims were Cameroonian, the Cameroon Tribune rep...