{"id":19097,"date":"2026-03-05T06:31:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T06:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=19097"},"modified":"2026-03-05T06:31:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T06:31:15","slug":"more-than-200-people-killed-in-mine-collapse-in-eastern-congo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2026\/03\/05\/more-than-200-people-killed-in-mine-collapse-in-eastern-congo\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 200 people killed in mine collapse in Eastern Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: More than 200 people have been killed following a landslide at a coltan mine in the Rubaya area of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The country\u2019s Ministry of Mines reported that around 70 of the victims were children and scores of injured have been transferred to medical centers in the city of Goma for treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to reports, the Rubaya region produces approximately 15 percent of the world\u2019s coltan, which is later processed into tantalum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coltan is a heat-resistant mineral widely used in the manufacturing of mobile phones, computers, spacecraft components, and gas turbines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: More than 200 people have been killed following a landslide at a coltan mine in the Rubaya area of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, officials said. The country\u2019s Ministry of Mines reported that around 70 of the victims were children and scores of injured have been transferred to medical centers in the city [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[73],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19097"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19099,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19097\/revisions\/19099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}