FILE PHOTO: Congolese artisanal gold miners sit outside a mine-pit near Kamituga in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, September 13, 2020. REUTERS/Crispin Kyalangalilwa NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES./File Photo
KAMITUGA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Pink painted coffins lined a hillside in eastern Congo on Monday as rescuers filled them with the bodies of victims of a gold mine cave-in, in which 50 people are feared dead.
Alexandre Ngandu Kamundala, deputy mayor of Kamituga, one of Democratic Republic of Congo's oldest gold-mining communities close to where the unofficial mine collapsed on Friday, said that 19 bodies have so far been found.
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