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‘My house caved in as I watched’: Why villagers dread gold mine


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Elinah Lipeya, 67, is lucky to be alive. Sometime in November last year, as she prepared to go to bed at around 9.41pm, she noticed water seeping into her house. She ran out to alert her grandson and neighbours. Twenty minutes later, her house had collapsed....
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