AT least 16 artisanal gold miners drowned in northern Mozambique after heavy rains flooded the mining field they were working in, a local television station reported, while more remain missing. Citing local and disaster management officials, Miramar reported 24 deaths overall in the storms, which began at the weekend and lashed central and northern Mozambique with heavy rains, thunder and hail. Faruk Satar, a district head in the northern province of Nampula, told the TV station on Wednesday that the miners had drowned after waters surged down a normally dry river bed, flooding the nearby mining field. Thirteen bodies were…