Nine Chinese nationals were killed on Sunday in a mining site in the Bambari region, in the center of the Central African Republic, which has been plagued by a civil war for several years, the mayor of Bambari and a local security source told AFP on Sunday. .
“
We counted nine bodies and two wounded
,” Bambari mayor Abel Matchipata told AFP, who assured that the victims were Chinese nationals working on “
a Chinese mining site
” of “
the Gold Coast mining company. Group
”, located 25 km.
A local security source confirmed the attack, the toll and the nationality of the victims.
Contacted by AFP, the Chinese embassy has not responded yet.