At least 13 Sudanese miners were killed and 28 others injured this Sunday in a shelling attributed to the Egyptian army in the border triangle between Sudan and Egypt, an area where tensions have recently increased due to illegal gold mining. reported different sources.

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The Sudan Doctors Network attributed the deaths to “an aerial bombardment,” although it indicated in a statement that the death toll is initial and that the balance could increase “due to the severity of some injuries and difficulties in accessing medical care and essential services in the region.”

According to information obtained by the NGO, the attacked area was frequented by artisanal mining workers and had “a high concentration” of people who had been warned by the Egyptian authorities “about their presence and activities in certain gold deposits.”

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“Witnesses also reported that some miners had received warnings from the Egyptian side ordering them to evacuate specific areas,” added the Network, whose sources reported that the attack was carried out by the Egyptian Army after the Sudanese workers failed to comply with orders not to cross the dividing line. So far, the authorities of Egypt and Sudan have not commented on the incident.

However, an Egyptian military source told EFE that the Air Force carried out a bombardment against a group of people who crossed the border into Egypt and who had been warned that they would be attacked if they progressed into Egyptian territory.

Likewise, he indicated that the Egyptian military “was unaware of the identity and intentions of the infiltrators,” but had orders to attack the group if they did not retreat to Sudanese territory.

The Sudanese political alliance Tasis, led by the paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (RSF), also attributed the bombing to the Egyptian Army and raised the death toll to more than 200, despite the fact that the rebel movement does not have access to that area under Khartoum’s control, whose main ally is precisely Egypt.

The Egyptian Armed Forces have already announced in recent months several security operations on their southern border against gold prospecting, smuggling, and illegal crossings of people into Egyptian territory.

Sources on the ground told the local newspaper Sudan Tribune that Egyptian security forces distribute leaflets and warnings to residents and miners in the border triangle to deter them from crossing to the other side of the border, where several gold extraction companies operate.

Gold is one of Sudan’s main sources of income, so more than two million people live off artisanal mining to subsist, especially after the outbreak of the war between the Sudanese Army and the RSF in April 2023, which has caused the death of tens of thousands of people and the displacement of more than 14 million.

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