<span style="color: #222222;">In the Democratic Republic of Congo, at least 43 illegal miners were killed when part of a copper mine collapsed in southeastern part of the country, Richard Muyej, Governor of the Lualaba province, told a press conference yesterday. <br />'' <br />'' Details of the exact toll were still unclear after two galleries caved in on Thursday at a mine in the Kolwezi area operated by Kamoto Copper Company (KCC), a subsidiary of the Swiss company Glencore. The Red Cross and some civil groups put the number of fatalities even higher, at between 60 and 80 dead. <br />'' <br />''Glencore had said KCC had observed a "growing presence" of illegal miners intruding on its operating sites. Illegal mining is common and frequently deadly in the Democratic Republic of Congo.</span><br />