Tanzania, Dec. 4 -- Dar es Salaam. One person has reportedly died after security guards and police clashed with people suspected to be "armed intruders" in North Mara Gold Mine, resulting into casualty and injuries.

Barrick Gold who is the main owner of the mine said in a statement that more than 100 "illegal miners" trespassed into the mine, shortly before midnight on November 30, 2022, and started seizing material from stockpile and sabotaging property.

"More than 100 illegal miners, armed with machetes and spears, attempted to scale North Mara Gold Mine's three-metre-high perimeter wall," the company stated, adding that approximately 70 trespassers made their way onto the mine's premises.

"The unarmed private security contractors at...