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NIAMEY: At least 18 people died when an artisanal goldmine collapsed in southern Niger near the border with Nigeria, the local mayor said on Monday (Tuesday in Manila). “The provisional death toll is 18 people, whom we buried this morning,” Adamou Gueraou, mayor of Dan-Issa district, told Agence France-Presse of Sunday’s disaster. “There were also seven hospitalized with injuries,” he said, adding Nigerians were among the injured.
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