‘Deadly hazards’: Behind Sudan gold mine collapse, a wartime desperation
- Nearly 100 people have died in recent days in the scramble for gold, whose value has grown in a shattered economy.
- A gold mine collapse in northern Sudan has killed at least 10 people and injured 21, according to survivors, bringing renewed attention to the dangers facing workers in one of the country’s most important and least regulated industries.
- The collapse took place on Sunday at the Awny mining area near Sudan’s border with Egypt.
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- Nearly 100 people have died in recent days in the scramble for gold, whose value has grown in a shattered economy.
- A gold mine collapse in northern Sudan has killed at least 10 people and injured 21, according to survivors, bringing renewed attention to the dangers facing workers in one of the country’s most important and least regulated industries.
- The collapse took place on Sunday at the Awny mining area near Sudan’s border with Egypt.
Sources: Al Jazeera