Gold mining

On the orders of the Brazilian authorities, armed police detachments and volunteers in helicopters attacked illegal gold mines in the Amazon regions inhabited by the indigenous Yanomami people.

On January 6, at the Aschinskoye gold deposit in the Kamchatka Territory, a collapse occurred in the mines. Five people were under the rubble, three of them were able to get out on their own. Later, another tunneller was found dead.