The incident happened in Niyabibwe, about 100 kilometres north of Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu province, they said Wednesday.
BUKAVU - Fourteen people were killed overnight Tuesday when a small-scale mine in a tin-rich area of eastern DR Congo collapsed, local officials said.
Miners had dug a shaft to look for cassiterite, a source of tin, but the walls caved in after heavy rain. "The search for survivors began at around 3 am and is ongoing," senior administrative official Muhima Kateete told AFP.Delphin Birimbi, head of a local association of NGOs, said the toll was provisional.Accidents are common and frequently deadly in the Democratic Republic of Congo's subsistence mines, where safety is poor and risk-taking high.
Figures indicating the scale of the problem are sketchy, given that many mines are illegal and remote.
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