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Local sources said that the accident took place in the “Umm Draisay” mine in Foga area, northwest of West Kordofan State, noting that special teams arrived at the scene of the accident and continued to extract the bodies of the victims from under the rubble, amid a state of sadness that pervaded the mine.
In turn, a spokesman for the Sudanese Mineral Resources Company said today, Tuesday, that 8 people were injured and are receiving treatment in the hospital.
Accidents of gold mining collapses are frequent on the heads of workers, who often venture hundreds of meters underground in search of the precious metal.
According to press reports, about two million people are scattered in traditional mining mines in a number of Sudanese states, including the Red Sea, the Nile River, the North, South and West Kordofan