Sudan Gold Mine Collapses

Al-RaqeeqSurvivors say paramilitaries with 2 excavators refused to free miners.

At least 82 died in Sudan’s fourth major mine collapse this year, a local official said.

Both warring sides fund themselves with gold, and local miners say the Rapid Support Forces helped run Al-Zaraa.

“We pulled their bodies out ourselves,” said Mohammed al-Hassan, a miner who survived the collapse of the second shaft.

Local sources say the Rapid Support Forces sealed off the area around the mine days later, and no one has released an updated toll.

How each outlet framed it

Drop Site News leans critical: reconstructs collapse from survivor testimony; documents RSF's refusal to assist rescue despite miners' pleas, bodies recovered by miners