An air raid at a gold mine near the disputed Sudan-Egypt border has killed at least 72 workers, according to a Sudanese rights group, after survivors described scenes of chaos in the mountainous region.
Emergency Lawyers, which documents atrocities in Sudan’s war, accused the Egyptian military of carrying out the attack.
“Egyptian fighter jets targeted civilian miners in the northern Wadi area inside Sudanese territory, resulting, according to preliminary information, in the killing of 72 civilians,” the Khartoum-based rights organization wrote on X on Sunday.
The reported attack on Saturday cannot be independently verified, and Egypt has issued no official comment.
It was this year’s second attack on the mountainous border region of Jabal al-Uqaydat, a gold mining area. Similar strikes, also reportedly carried out by Egypt, killed 23 workers at the gold mining site in June.
The Egyptian military said at the time that it had conducted a “large-scale operation” against illegal gold mining within its borders.
The border between Sudan and Egypt is disputed, with both countries claiming the resource-rich Halaib Triangle.
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