By Bisola Adeyemo
No fewer than thirty-eight bodies were recovered after the collapse of a private gold mine in western Sudan.
The Sudanese Mineral Resources Limited Company announced in a statement on Tuesday, that 38 workers were killed as a result of the collapse of a gold mine in the west of the country with one person rescued alive.
She said that the deaths were “as a result of the collapse of the Umm Drisaya mine in the Foga administrative unit of Al-Nuhud locality in West Kordofan state.”
Khaled Dahweya, Director of the Sudanese State Mineral Resources Company in West Kordofan state, said in a phone statement to Reuters, that 31 bodies were recovered after the collapse of a private gold mining mine in Al-Nuhud locality in West Kordofan state, and only one person was rescued.
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