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A rescue operation is underway in Zimbabwe's town of Bindura, after at least 40 informal miners were trapped underground following the collapse of a shaft in a disused gold mine. IMAGES
Rescuers dig to reach victims after a makeshift gold mine collapsed in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, killing around 50 people. IMAGES
Fifteen people were killed when a three-storey building under construction collapsed in Bamako's Banconi Salemebougou district, according to a provisional assessment by the Malian Ministry of Security and Civil Protection. Rescue operations to search for survivors are ongoing. IMAGES of the building that collapsed
At least 23 illegal gold miners are feared dead in Zimbabwe after two disused shafts flooded in a mining town 145 kilometres (90 miles) south-west of the capital Harare.
Crosses are placed outside Brazil's National Congress in Brasilia in a tribute to the victims of the Brumadinho dam collapse on the fifth anniversary of the tragedy. January 25 marks five years of the rupture of the dam at the Corrego do Feijao Mine, owned by the mining company Vale. It was holding more than 11 million cubic meters (nearly three billion gallons) of mining waste when it collapsed, unleashing a brown sea of sludge. IMAGES