Air Strikes Kill Dozens of Gold Miners on Sudan-Egypt Border
Emergency Lawyers said the death toll could rise as access to the remote mining site remains limited and dozens more workers were injured.
- 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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Saturday's attack "caused the death of 72 civilian miners, according to preliminary information," said Emergency Lawyers, which documents the atrocities in the Sudanese war.
️ The Sudanese human rights organization "Emergency Lawyers" stated that on Saturday the Egyptian Air Force carried out an airstrike on a gold mine on the border between Sudan and Egypt, killing 72 civilian miners
Representatives of the organization reported that the death toll is preliminary, and that work to document and confirm the casualty data...
A reported Egyptian airstrike has killed at least 72 Sudanese gold miners in a border area between Sudan and Egypt, where small-scale gold mining is widespread. The post At least 72 civilians killed in “Egyptian airstrike” on Sudan border appeared first on in.gr.
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The Frontier PostAt least 72 Sudanese artisanal miners killed in strike, rights monitor says
Oct 11 - 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. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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