What the records say
- When
- 21 Feb 2022
- Kind
- Mining accident
- Coordinates
- 10.25° N, 3.02° W
- Description
- 2022 mining disaster in Burkina Faso
2 sources record it
- Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Gbomblora explosion: About 60 people were killed and over 100 people were injured in the gold mine explosion”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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