Air strikes hit gold mines near Sudan-Egypt border, killing dozens, miners say
Emergency Lawyers said the attack was the second on the site this year and left more than 50 wounded, with the toll expected to rise.
- On Saturday, an airstrike in Northern Sudan killed at least 72 artisanal miners, according to the Sudan-based Emergency Lawyers, in an attack near the disputed border with Egypt.
- The incident occurred south of the remote Halayeb triangle, east of the River Nile, where Northern Sudan has seen a surge in makeshift mines as the conflict disrupts livelihoods and gold becomes a key cash source.
- Emergency Lawyers blamed the Egyptian air force for the strike, while the Sudan Doctors Network warned that casualties may rise "due to the severity of some injuries and the difficulties in accessing medical care and essential services in the region."
- Egypt has not commented on the incident, though it previously admitted conducting a "large-scale operation" against illegal mining, while Chatham House reports as much as 60% of unofficial gold exports end up in Egypt.
- Sudan's three-and-a-half-year civil war has killed more than 200,000 people; on Friday, a separate drone strike killed 31 people at a displacement camp in Blue Nile, illustrating the conflict's escalating intensity.
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Egypt Independent
At least 72 Sudanese artisanal miners killed in strike, rights monitor says
Reuters — At least 72 artisanal miners were killed in an airstrike in northern Sudan on Saturday, rights monitor Emergency Lawyers said on Sunday, in the second such incident in several months. Emergency Lawyers blamed the Egyptian air force for the strike, a claim Reuters could not immediately verify. The Egyptian military did not comment on …
Dozens of people were killed and injured by shelling of a indiscriminate mining area on the border between Egypt and the Sudan.
The Egyptian Air Force is said to have fired rockets at a mine area on the border with Sudan. Cairo is silent, which could be behind the military strike.
Saudi Gazette
AlKhaleej TodayAir raid kills dozens of gold miners on Sudan-Egypt border
KHARTOUM — An air raid at a gold mine near the disputed Sudan-Egypt border has killed at least 72 workers, according to a human rights group, after survivors described scenes of chaos in the mountainous region.The Sudan-based Emergency Lawyers, a human rights and legal advocacy organization, said the attack occurred on Saturday in rugged and mountainous territory that it said lies within Sudan.The attack, south of the remote Halayeb triangle, ea…
Sudan: According to human rights organizations, hundreds of people were killed and wounded in airstrikes in the border area between Sudan and Egypt. The…
At least 72 people were killed and 28 injured in an airstrike on a gold mine in Sudan near the border with Egypt, AFP reported. Emergency Lawyers, a Sudanese war crimes organization, accused the Egyptian Air Force of carrying out the attack.
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