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Gold mine collapse kills at least 70 people in Sudan's West Kordofan
Dozens of artisanal miners have been killed after a series of adjoining mining shafts collapsed.
At least 70 people have been killed after a gold mine collapsed in Sudan’s West Kordofan state.
Dozens of artisanal miners were killed and a number of them were trapped after a series of adjoining mining shafts collapsed at al-Zaraa mine, near al-Nuhud town, on Tuesday, the Kordofan Observatory monitoring group said on Wednesday.
