PRAYER NEED
Air strikes kill at least 72 gold miners on Sudan’s border with Egypt, rights group says
Mohnd Blal / AP, via Al Jazeera
What happened
Air strikes on an artisanal gold mine in a remote area on Sudan’s border with Egypt killed at least 72 workers on Saturday, 10 October, the Sudanese rights group Emergency Lawyers said. The group accused Egypt’s air force of carrying out the attack. The toll and the accusation have not been independently verified, and Egypt has not commented. It was the second deadly strike on miners in the area in several months.
Workers who had gone to the mines to earn a living were killed far from any help.
People affected
- Lives lost
- 72
Pray for
- Families of the miners who were killed
- Survivors, and the miners’ communities in a remote border area
- Protection for civilians caught up in Sudan’s war and the violence along its borders
- Truth and accountability for those responsible
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