According to Sudan‘s state-run mining firm, dozens of people were killed over the weekend when a defunct gold mine in West Kordofan region collapsed.
The Sudanese Mineral Resources Company’s spokesperson, Ismael Tissou, stated on Wednesday that at least 38 individuals have died, up from 31 earlier.
According to Tissou, the precise number of people buried remains unknown.
The shuttered, non-functioning mine was located in the hamlet of Fuja, in the En Nahud location, 700 kilometres south of Khartoum, Sudanese Mineral Resources Company Limited said in a statement posted on Facebook on Tuesday.
Several shafts at the Darsaya mine collapsed, according to local media, and at least eight miners were injured and brought to a local hospital.
Villagers gathered at the scene while at least two dredgers toiled to find probable survivors and bodies, according to the mining firm.
Other images depicted people preparing graves for the dead to be buried.
The mine had been condemned as hazardous, according to the corporation, and had been watched by security officers for a time to guarantee that no activity restarted there. Local traditional miners, on the other hand, arrived to operate the mine after the soldiers had left.
It didn’t say when the mine had been condemned. In Sudan‘s gold mines, where safety rules are not strictly followed, collapses are regular.
Sudan, officially the Republic of Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa. It is bordered by the Central African Republic to the southwest, Chad to the west, Egypt to the north, Eritrea to the northeast, Ethiopia to the southeast, Libya to the northwest, South Sudan to the south, and the Red Sea
