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• Search operations still underway after tragedy at illegal Zamboye mining site near town of Baboua
• Public prosecutor says landslide believed to have been caused by collapse of ‘several underground tunnels’
BOUAR: A landslide at an illegal gold mine has killed at least 100 people in the Central African Republic on the border with Cameroon, the latest of many such accidents in the mineral-rich nation.
Search operations are still underway after the accident at the Zamboye mining site, about 50 kilometres (31 miles) from the Central African town of Baboua, on Tuesday afternoon.
