{"id":32432,"date":"2017-02-09T01:24:48","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T01:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/four-dead-after-armed-robbers-storm-drc-gold-mine\/"},"modified":"2017-02-09T01:24:43","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T01:24:43","slug":"four-dead-after-armed-robbers-storm-drc-gold-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/four-dead-after-armed-robbers-storm-drc-gold-mine\/","title":{"rendered":"Four dead after armed robbers storm DRC gold mine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{An armed attack on the Twanziga gold mine in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Tuesday has resulted in four casualties.}<\/p>\n<p>Among the dead are three policemen that were guarding the mine and one of the robbers, according to a statement on Banro Corp&#8217;s (TSX:BAA) website.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred early Tuesday morning and involved an attempt by the seven-member raiding party to break through the gate. Police fired on the robbers, ending the assault. A security guard was also injured during the altercation. No items were stolen and the mine continues to operate normally, Banro said. The attempted break-in was recorded on security cameras and has been reported to authorities. An investigation is underway.<\/p>\n<p>The open-pit mine, which started commercial production in 2012, is one of four gold mines operated by Banro in the DRC. It was expected to produce 110-120,000 ounces in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>According to Reuters the mine has been &#8220;plagued by illegal miners squatting on the site and by armed groups, some of the dozens of militias that remain active despite the official end to a regional conflict in 2003.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Banro&#8217;s stock, listed on the Toronto main board, lost 2.27% today to close at 21.5 cents a share.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-18117 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/twangiza-mine-banro.jpg\" alt=\"Image of the Twangiza gold mine courtesy of Banro Corporation.\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Source:Mining <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{An armed attack on the Twanziga gold mine in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Tuesday has resulted in four casualties.} Among the dead are three policemen that were guarding the mine and one of the robbers, according to a statement on Banro Corp&#8217;s (TSX:BAA) website. The incident occurred early Tuesday morning and involved an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99],"byline":[2725],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-32432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-mining"],"bylines":[{"id":2725,"name":"Mining","slug":"mining","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2725,"name":"Mining","slug":"mining","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32432"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=32432"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=32432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}