At least 72 Sudanese artisanal gold miners were killed in an airstrike near the Sudan-Egypt border, the Sudanese rights group Emergency Lawyers said, per a Reuters relay. The group blamed the Egyptian air force and said such a cross-border strike would violate international law; Egypt did not comment. Unverified images circulating online showed dozens of bodies in rubble, and the strike comes as artisanal gold has become a key cash source for both sides of Sudan’s war, much of it smuggled into Egypt.
At least 72 Sudanese artisanal miners killed in airstrike near Egypt border
At least 72 artisanal gold miners were killed in an airstrike on the Sudan-Egypt border, a Sudanese rights monitor said, blaming the Egyptian air force for a cross-border attack Egypt has not confirmed.
Why it matters: Gold has become the war's cash source for both sides and much of it is smuggled into Egypt, so a strike on a border mining site — and the blame pinned on Cairo — injects a cross-border dimension into a conflict already marked by mass-casualty events.
Data as of Sunday, October 11, 2026: the Daily Maverick piece (relaying Reuters) was opened and read in full. The blame on the Egyptian air force is the claim of Sudanese rights group Emergency Lawyers, which Reuters could not immediately verify; Egypt's military did not comment and the foreign ministry did not respond to Reuters. The DW item corroborates the strike from feed metadata only. Separately, the United Nations said some 31 people were killed Friday in a drone strike on a displacement camp in Blue Nile state.
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- At least 72 Sudanese artisanal miners killed in strike, rights monitor says · Daily Maverick, relaying Reuters · 2026-10-11
- Air strikes kill dozens of gold miners on Sudan-Egypt border · Deutsche Welle · 2026-10-11