40 killed in gold mine collapse in western Sudan

Khartoum-Sana

The death toll from the collapse of a gold mine in western Sudan has risen to forty.

Sudanese media reported that the mine, located near the city of Al-Nhoud in West Kordofan state, about 500 km west of the capital, Khartoum, collapsed yesterday while a large number of workers were present in it, which led to the fall of this number of victims.

Khaled Dhawi, director of the branch of the Sudanese Mineral Resources Company, announced yesterday that the collapse incident led to the death of 31 people as a preliminary outcome, expecting their number to rise further due to the presence of a number of missing persons.

This incident is not the first in this mine, as four people died last January, when the authorities closed the mine and put a guard on it, but the guards withdrew two months ago.

The traditional mines for extracting gold spread in various regions of Sudan for more than a decade, as the people assisted workers digging the ground and breaking stones to extract the gold, of which the country’s production is estimated at about 80 tons annually.