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The artisanal gold mines continue to start thousands of families in the prefecture of Siguiri. On Saturday 03 May 2025, an artisanal gold mine collapsed in Kintinian, a sub-prefecture located 55km from Siguiri. After research operations, the victims were not found in the rubble.
It was on the evening of Sunday, May 04, that the victims were found in the rubble. Macabre assessment, 9 dead. When questioned, Sékou Oumar Cissé, rescuer of his state, confided in our editorial staff. “We have experienced difficulties at the time of the extraction of the victims in the earth, we took a first machine, unfortunately it was broken. We had to look for another. It was on Monday 05 2025, that we were able to recover the 9 bodies, ”he hinted.
As we put this dispatch online, a woman is missing.
-Note that for respect for human dignity, gold panning activities are stopped for the moment and research operations are underway.
In the space of three months, around twenty people lost their lives in series of landslides that occurred in the prefecture of Siguiri.
Nouhan Konaté, corresponding to Siguiri
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