{"id":309883,"date":"2025-08-15T15:31:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T07:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=309883"},"modified":"2025-08-15T15:31:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T07:31:34","slug":"tanzanian-mine-collapse-buries-25-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=309883","title":{"rendered":"Tanzanian mine collapse buries 25 people"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/assets\/news_photos\/2025\/08\/15\/image-301953-1755233768.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<br>DAR ES SALAAM, Aug 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Rescue operations were ongoing at a Tanzanian mine which collapsed three days ago, burying at least 25 people, the country&#8217;s President Samia Suluhu Hassan said on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The accident on Monday occurred as maintenance was being conducted at the Nyandolwa gold mine in northwestern Shinyanga Region, roughly 200 kilometres north of the capital, Dodoma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement posted on X, Samia said that &#8220;25 of our compatriots working at the mine were buried under debris&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She expressed her &#8220;great sadness&#8221; over the accident, and said that security agencies would assist fire and rescue forces to &#8220;expedite the ongoing rescue operation&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shinyanga Regional Commissioner Mboni Mhita urged for patience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Nobody expected this accident to happen, let&#8217;s remain calm and continue supporting rescue efforts,&#8221; she said at the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The buried people were conducting maintenance in the shafts,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tanzania is the continent&#8217;s fourth-largest gold producer, and mining accidents are not uncommon, with miners often lacking adequate safety equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In January last year, 22 miners died in a landslide at another gold mine in the north of the country, after it was hit by torrential rain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And in January 2017, 15 people were rescued after being trapped underground for two days after their mine collapsed. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0DAR ES SALAAM, Aug 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Rescue operations were ongoing at a Tanzanian mine which collapsed three days ago, burying at least 25 people, the country&#8217;s President Samia Suluhu Hassan said on Thursday. The accident on Monday occurred as maintenance was being conducted at the Nyandolwa gold mine in northwestern Shinyanga Region, roughly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":309885,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309883"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=309883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309887,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309883\/revisions\/309887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/309885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=309883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=309883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=309883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}