Around 100 killed in clashes at Chad gold mining site

Chad's government sent a fact-finding mission to the site on May 25 to assess the unrest and restore calm, saying at the time that human lives were lost and several people injured without giving numbers.

"The death toll we established after our mission on the ground reaches around 100 dead," Brahim told Reuters.

All informal mining operations have been suspended and we have proceeded to evacuate people from the site, he added.

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