Landslide kills over 200 people at Congo's Rubaya mine, mines ministry says


KINSHASA, March 4 (Reuters) - 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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