Several dead in fighting between miners in north Chad, govt says

N’DJAMENA (Reuters) – 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. A government mission has been dispatched to assess the situation and restore calm, the government said in a statement, adding that human lives were lost and several pe…

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