At least 28 people have died after a landslide ripped through an illegal gold mining site in Angola, turning the country’s growing rush into gold into one of its deadliest informal mining disasters.
The collapse happened in Bengo province, northwest of the capital Luanda, where miners were extracting gold from an unregulated site before the ground caved in.
Four people were rescued, while search operations have now been completed, provincial civil protection officials said.
Local reports said the victims were between 16 and 45 years old, with 13 members of the same family among those killed.
That detail has made the disaster not just a mining accident, but a painful reminder of how poverty and joblessness continue to push families into dangerous informal work.
