Attack in disputed Sudan-Egypt border region cannot be independently verified
An air raid on a gold mine near the disputed Sudan-Egypt border has killed at least 72 workers, according to a Sudanese rights group.
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 organisation wrote on X on Sunday.
The reported attack on Saturday cannot be independently verified, and Egypt has not issued any official comment.
It was the second attack this year on the mountainous gold mining area of Jabal al-Uqaydat. Similar strikes, also reportedly carried out by Egypt, killed 23 workers in June. The Egyptian military said at the time that it had carried out a “large-scale operation” against illegal gold mining within its borders.
Sudan and Egypt both claim the resource-rich Halaib Triangle. Images shared on social media and by local rights groups, which could not be verified, showed dozens of bodies in rubble and others wrapped in funeral shrouds. Miners described an air strike on the area.
