Sudanese government official has confirmed that 31 miners were killed and eight missing on Tuesday when a rudimentary gold mine collapsed.
Head of the state-run Mineral Resources Company in West Kordofan
Khaled Dahwa said the disaster occurred near Nuhud, a town about 500
kilometres west of Khartoum.
He confirmed that thirty-one traditional miners were killed because of a
mine collapsing, adding one person survived and eight others were still
missing.
Another official at the company said four miners were killed at the same
mine in January, adding that authorities at the time shut down the mine
and installed security but a couple of months ago they left.
Artisanal gold mining is a dangerous profession in Sudan largely due to
ramshackle infrastructure.
It flourished around a decade ago in various parts of country, with people
digging the ground using excavators in hopes of unearthing the precious
metal.
