Afghanistan, Oct. 12 -- At least 72 civilian gold miners were killed in airstrikes on a mining site in northern Sudan near the Egyptian border, according to the Sudanese rights group Emergency Lawyers, which accused the Egyptian air force of carrying out the attack.
The strikes took place on Saturday in the Jabal al-Uqaydat area, a remote, mountainous region known for informal gold mining. Emergency Lawyers said the reported death toll was preliminary and that efforts to document and verify the casualties were continuing.
Survivors told Agence France-Presse that an aircraft appeared over the mining area in the morning and carried out repeated strikes. One miner, Abdelaziz Youssef, said the aircraft attacked five times, killing people at t...