About 60 people have died after an explosion at a makeshift gold mine in a village in south-west Burkina Faso, local officials say.
The blast happened in a market at the gold-mining site when dynamite stored there caught fire, witnesses said.
“There were bodies everywhere. It was an explosion that uprooted trees and brought down houses,” .
Dozens of injured people have been evacuated to the nearest hospital.
The goldmine has been closed till further notice
Burkina Faso is one of Africa’s biggest gold producers, with many mines run by international firms, as well as informal ones without any oversite or regulation.
BBC
