Child slavery in the artisanal mining and quarrying sector 2011, para. 56
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Children working in mines run the risk of spinal injuries and physical deformities as a result of the heavy loads carried. They also face injury and sometimes death as a result of working in makeshift mines and handling explosives. Children mining underwater and underground risk death by suffocation and asphyxiation.
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Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences