Nairobi, Oct 11. (dpa/GNA) – Dozens of people have been killed and many more injured in an airstrike, near the border with Egypt in Sudan, the Sudan Doctors Network said on Sunday.
The organization reported that the attack targeted gold mining sites.
Another organization, Darfur Victims Advocacy, put the death toll at 200 and the number of injured at around 120.
According to these reports, Egyptian military aircraft are said to have bombed the mining area, where thousands of people are panning for gold.
The figures and the allegations against Egypt cannot be independently verified. Images of leaflets, reportedly dropped by the Egyptian aircraft, were circulating on Sudanese social media.
These referred to a security campaign against illegal gold mining.
A bloody civil war has been raging in Sudan for three and a half years. The area where the airstrikes reportedly took place is not among the current combat zones.
However, experts accuse the parties to the conflict of using revenue from the sale of mineral resources such as gold, to purchase weapons.
The conflict pits the government army, the SAF, led by Sudan’s de facto ruler Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, against the RSF militia led by Mohamed Hamdan Daglo.
The UN says the war has triggered the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, with more than 11 million refugees and internally displaced persons.
GNA