Over 100 gold miners killed in clashes in Chad: official


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  • Tuesday, 31 May 2022

N'DJAMENA, May 30 (Xinhua) -- Over 100 gold miners have been killed and some 40 have been injured in violence that erupted last week at the Kouri Bougoudi gold site in the north of Chad, an official said Monday.

Images circulating on Chadian social media in recent days showed piled up or charred bodies in the gold-bearing area, in the Tibesti region that borders Libya.

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