The accident at the artisanal mine located near the village of Tatakourou, about 40km from Siguiri, occurred on 9 May 2021.
The incident resulted in the deaths of 15 miners, Al Jazeera reported citing local councillor Sekou Biniou Simagan.
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Speaking on the condition of anonymity, a local resident told Reuters that the bodies of miners have been recovered that included two women.
Citing a government spokesman, BBC News said that the ‘exact circumstances and causes of the tragedy’ will be investigated.
Police captain Mamadou Niare was quoted by AFP as saying: “This situation in the Siguiri mines concerns all of us – at the end of the day these landslides are more deadly than the Covid-19 pandemic.”
Reportedly, there are hundreds of unofficial ‘artisanal’ mines that are ‘notoriously dangerous’ around Siguiri.
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By GlobalDataThe zone is claimed to hold some of the largest gold reserves in the West African country.
Two years ago, a landslide in Guinea killed 17 miners followed by 12 more miners approximately nine months later as a result of a similar incident.
In January 2021, about 11 gold miners were reportedly rescued to safety after 14 days trapped underground at the Hushan underground gold mine in Shandong province.
A month later, a fire at the Caojiawa gold mine in the city of Zhaoyuan in eastern China’s Shandong province was reported to have killed six people.
