14 Illegal miners in western Liberia, Gola Konneh District, Grand Cape Mount County were few days ago trapped under rubble presumed dead as a result of a landslide in the county’s mineral-rich Gola Konneh District.
According to report coming from the area via a local radio station, the victims were citizens of Sierra Leone who had reportedly dug a deep hole near Liberia's border with their country and were buried in a landslide.
Hundreds of people from Sierra Leone cross the border into Liberia to illegally mine in the mineral-rich Gola Konneh District.
Liberian authorities have not been able to put a halt to illegal mineral mining, especially in remote border regions.
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