Dozens of gold prospectors killed in strikes on Egypt-Sudan border, rights group says

At least 72 civilians who had been prospecting for gold in a border region of Sudan have been killed in air strikes, a regional rights group says.
Emergency Lawyers, based in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, said jets targeted the so-called artisanal miners at a popular gold mining sites in Sudan's River Nile state on Saturday.
Neither the Egyptian government nor the de facto Sudanese authorities have so far commented.
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