(Reuters) – At least 31 people were killed in the collapse of a private gold mine in western Sudan, a mining official told Reuters on Tuesday.
“Thirty-one bodies were recovered after the collapse of a gold mine in En Nahud locality in West Kurdufan state. Only one person was rescued alive,” said Khaled Dahweya, director of government-owned Sudanese Mineral Resources Company.
(Reporting by Khalid Abdel Aziz; Writing by Ahmad Elhamy; Editing by Alex Richardson)