Overview

• Rescue teams have recovered ten bodies and are continuing searches for survivors among up to 500 miners believed buried.
• Sunday’s successive landslides struck an informal gold mining site in remote Süd Kivu province after days of heavy rain.
• The miners work without formal oversight in unregulated pits, making it difficult to verify the number of those affected.
• Many trapped miners are internally displaced persons who fled ongoing conflict in eastern Congo.
• Authorities have reported further landslides in surrounding villages but no additional casualties have been confirmed.