Khartoum, March 31 (Reuters) - Fourteen miners have died
and more than 20 have been injured in a mine collapse in Sudan's
Northern state, a senior official in state-owned Sudanese
Mineral Resources Company told Reuters on Friday.
Part of a mountainside collapsed near al Jabal al Ahmar
mine, located 70kms away from Wadi Halfa city, causing the
deadly accident on Thursday, Moataz Hajj Nour told Reuters.
Witnesses said miners were digging for gold using heavy
machinery which had caused the collapse, according to Sudan News
Agency (SUNA) on Thursday.
(Reporting by Khalid Abdelaziz, Writing by Ahmed Elimam;
Editing by Hugh Lawson)
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