Several Dead in Fighting Between Miners in North Chad, Government Says

Several Dead in Fighting Between Miners in North Chad, Government Says
Location of the mountainous Kouri Bougoudi district in north Chad. Google Maps/Screenshot via The Epoch Times
Reuters
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N'DJAMENA—Deadly clashes have broken out between gold miners in north Chad, the interim government said on Wednesday, as a local rebel group’s unconfirmed report of at least 200 fatalities in the area circulated on social media.

The violence broke out at an informal gold mining site in the mountainous Kouri Bougoudi district, near the border with Libya, where the army has been fighting rebel groups for over a decade.