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At least 13 gold miners killed in Sudan after tunnel collapses

At least 13 freelance gold miners have died in Sudan’s South Kordofan state after a tunnel collapsed. The accident happened on Tuesday night after the discovery of large amounts of gold in one of the shafts, the news agency EFE quoted the deputy mayor of the town of Talodi saying. The find attracted a large […]

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At least 38 killed in gold mine collapse in Sudan’s West Kordofan province

Sudanese authorities said at least 38 people were killed Tuesday when a defunct gold mine collapsed in West Kordofan province. The country’s state-run mining company said in a statement the collapse of the closed, non-functioning mine took place in the village of Fuja, 700 kilometres south of the capital of Khartoum. The Sudanese Mineral Resources […]