Overnight World Report · October 13, 2026, 12:40 AM CDT
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- Egyptian Strike on Sudan Gold Mine Kills Dozens as Survivors Report 200 Dead (via The SOFX Report)
Egyptian Strike on Sudan Gold Mine Kills Dozens as Survivors Report 200 Dead.
A Sudanese rights group, Emergency Lawyers, blamed Egyptian warplanes for an October 10 strike on a Red Sea State gold mine that killed at least 72 miners.
2. Casualty counts diverge sharply, with the Sudan Doctors Network recording 13 dead and 28 wounded. 3. Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan ordered a fact-finding inquiry as footage reviewed by the New York Times showed an apparent Egyptian NASR 400 bomb.
Warplanes bombed an open-pit gold mine in northern Sudan on October 10, killing at least 72 artisanal miners, a Sudanese rights group said, blaming the Egyptian air force for the second such strike at the remote site this year.
The group, Emergency Lawyers, said the strike hit the Jabal al-Uqaydat area in Sudan’s Red Sea State, hundreds of miles from the front lines of the country’s civil war.
Egypt has not claimed responsibility for the attack, while its military said it was conducting an operation against illegal gold prospecting near the border; Egypt did not directly address the specific strike. A Disputed Toll and Egyptian Munitions Accounts of the death toll varied widely.
Emergency Lawyers gave a preliminary figure of 72 and said verification was continuing.[1]
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