Acid Spill on Vehicles Near Glencore Mine Kills 18 People
- Truck was its on way to Glencore’s Mutanda mine in Congo
- Vehicle owned by contractor to copper, cobalt operation
The Mutanda copper mine.
Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg
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At least 18 people died when a truck transporting sulphuric acid to a mine owned by Glencore Plc in the Democratic Republic of Congo crashed and spilled its contents onto two vehicles, a provincial health minister said.
The tanker was heading to the Mutanda Mine, a copper and cobalt operation near Kolwezi in the southeast of the country, Lualaba province Health Minister Samy Kayombo Mukanza said. Nine people are also injured, he said.