DR Congo government says 200 killed after landslide at rebel-held mine

The M23, which controls the coltan-rich area, has not commented and the death toll is hard to verify.

A catastrophic landslide at a coltan mine near Rubaya in eastern Congo, now under the control of the Rwandan-backed M23 rebel group, has reportedly killed over 200 artisanal miners. The collapse occurred in hand-dug tunnels near Goma and comes just weeks after a similar accident in January with a comparable death toll.

More than 200 people were killed on Tuesday in a mine collapse in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the DRC government said Wednesday. The incident occurred at the Rubaya mining sites, known for the coltan resources, in North Kivu province following 'exceptionally heavy rains.'

More than 200 people died on Tuesday in a landslide triggered by heavy rains at the Rubaya coltan mine in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the country's mines ministry said on Wednesday. A senior official from the AFC/M23 rebel group, which controls the mine, told Reuters earlier that only five or six died in the accident.

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A mine collapse at the Rubaya coltan mining site in eastern Congo has reportedly killed at least 200 people, according to Congolese authorities. However, the M23 rebel group, which controls the site, disputes this number, claiming only five deaths due to bombings rather than a landslide.