Rights monitor says Egyptian warplanes bombed gold miners inside Sudan, killing at least 72; survivors put the toll above 200
Emergency Lawyers, a Khartoum-based rights group, said the strike hit mining camps near the disputed Sudan-Egypt border. Egypt has made no comment.

An Egyptian military spokesman said the armed forces and the police were carrying out a third phase of a campaign against illicit gold prospecting in the Eastern Desert, targeting criminal networks, and that warning leaflets had been dropped beforehand. Sudan Tribune said the statement did not address Saturday's strikes or the deaths, and that Egypt has still neither confirmed nor denied bombing the miners.
Sudan's Sovereign Council media office said Abdel Fattah al-Burhan had ordered a fact-finding committee, drawn from the public prosecution, the judiciary and the security bodies, into Saturday's air strikes on gold prospecting sites in the Shamal al-Wadi area of northern Red Sea State, near the Egyptian border.
Emergency Lawyers said Egyptian fighter jets bombed civilian gold miners in the northern Wadi area inside Sudan, killing at least 72. Sudan Tribune said three survivors put the toll above 200 and that more than 15,000 workers fled. Egypt has not commented and the account could not be independently verified.
Emergency Lawyers, a Khartoum-based rights group that documents atrocities in Sudan's war, said Egyptian fighter jets targeted civilian gold miners in the northern Wadi area inside Sudanese territory, killing at least 72 workers. The group posted the claim on X, citing preliminary information, and Al Jazeera reported it on Sunday. Al Jazeera said the attack could not be independently verified and placed the site in the mountainous Jabal al-Uqaydat area, near the Halaib Triangle, which Sudan and Egypt both claim.\n\nSudan Tribune reported that three survivors put the toll above 200 dead with hundreds wounded. The survivors said warplanes fired more than five missiles into the camps at about six in the morning on Saturday as workers prepared for their shifts, and that some men were underground when shafts collapsed. Miners told the outlet that more than 15,000 workers had fled the area.\n\nEgypt has issued no official comment on the strike. Neither the death toll nor the identity of the aircraft could be independently verified. Egypt said in June that it had carried out a large-scale operation against illegal gold mining after an earlier incident in the same area.
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