Sudan officials: 31 bodies retrieved from collapsed mine

CAIRO — Sudanese authorities said Wednesday rescue workers retrieved astatine slightest 31 bodies from a collapsed golden excavation successful West Kordofan province.

The country’s state-run mining institution said workers and villagers were inactive searching the Darsaya excavation for much bodies oregon imaginable survivors. The excavation is located successful the Fuja village, astir 700 kilometers (435 miles) southbound of the superior of Khartoum.

The defunct excavation collapsed earlier this week, sidesplitting astatine slightest 38 people, the institution said Tuesday. It posted images connected Facebook showing villagers gathering astatine the tract arsenic astatine slightest 2 dredgers worked to find imaginable survivors and bodies.

The Sudanese Mineral Resources Limited Company said the excavation was not functional but section miners returned to enactment determination aft information forces guarding the tract near the area.

Collapses are communal successful Sudan’s golden mines, wherever information standards are not wide successful effect.

Sudan is simply a large golden shaper with galore mines scattered crossed the country. The industry, however, suffered from years of mismanagement and corruption.

The transitional authorities has begun regulating the manufacture during the past 2 years.

In adjacent North Darfur province, an unidentified equipped radical precocious Tuesday attacked and looted a warehouse for the World Food Program successful the provincial superior of el-Fasher, said Khardiata Lo Ndiaye, U.N. humanitarian coordinator successful Sudan.

As galore arsenic 1,900 metric tons of nutrient had been stored astatine the warehouse, meant to beryllium distributed to radical successful request successful the area, the WFP said.

“Such an onslaught severely impedes our quality to present to the radical who request it the most,” she said.

Sudan is 1 of the poorest counties successful the world, with astatine slightest 14.3 cardinal radical successful request humanitarian assistance, according to U.N. figures.

The onslaught connected WFP’s warehouse came aft different 1 connected a erstwhile basal for the U.N. peacekeeping ngo successful el-Fasher past week. The base, handed implicit to Sudanese authorities connected Dec. 21, was besides looted, the U.N. said.