At least 72 killed in air strike on gold mine at Egypt's border, rights group blames Egyptian military

A Khartoum-based rights group, Emergency Lawyers, says at least 72 gold miners were killed in an air strike on a mining site in the mountainous, undemarcated borderland between Sudan and Egypt. The group accuses the Egyptian military of targeting civilian miners; Egypt has not commented. An analyst later put the death toll at 85, calling it the second strike on the site.

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