More than 200 people, including about 70 children, were killed in a landslide at a coltan mine near Rubaya in eastern Congo, close to the Rwandan border. Heavy rains are cited as the cause of the disaster.

A landslide at the Rubaya mining site in the Democratic Republic of Congo, located west of Goma, has resulted in more than 200 fatalities.

Intense fighting is reported in eastern DR Congo over the strategic coltan mine located in Rubaya.

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 […]