Rescuers work to retrieve bodies at collapsed Sudanese gold mine


  • World
  • Wednesday, 29 Dec 2021

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Rescuers were working to retrieve the dead and injured from a gold mine in a remote area of Sudan on Wednesday, three days after it collapsed killing at least 32 people, a mining official said.

As of Wednesday morning, 32 bodies had been recovered from the mine in West Kordofan in addition to three people rescued with injuries, said Khaled Dahweya, director of the state-owned Sudanese Mineral Resources Company in West Darfur state.

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