OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Eight people suffocated to death when police in Burkina Faso used tear gas against unauthorised gold miners at Nordgold's Bissa mine, a prosecutor said on Thursday.
About 40 were on site on Wednesday when the police fired tear gas, which "caused panic and the suffocation of the clandestine gold miners", national prosecutor Wendyam Lambert Sanfo said in a statement.
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