At least 30 workers were killed in a landslide in northeastern Afghanistan while illegally sifting for gold, officials said Sunday. The landslide occurred in Badakhshan province, Mohammad Zekriya, a lawmaker from the province, told The Washington Post. The workers were in a riverbed sifting for gold when rocks and debris tumbled down the mountainside. “The exploitation of the mine was done illegally” by locals paid by a mining company, Zekriya said. The most recent major landslide, in April 2015, killed more than 50 people and destroyed about 100 mud homes.

Source: Washington Post January 06, 2019 12:14 UTC