"13 miners killed in Sudan gold mine collapse" 28 January 2026

At least 13 miners were killed and six others injured when five gold mining shafts collapsed in Sudan’s South Kordofan State, officials said on Wednesday...The disaster is the latest in a series of fatal accidents involving informal gold mining across Sudan, where dangerous conditions have claimed scores of lives in recent years...

The Sudanese Mineral Resources Company (SMRC) in South Kordofan said in a statement that five abandoned shafts at the Umm Fakroun mine in Abu Jubayhah County collapsed on Jan. 23. In addition to the confirmed casualties, several people remain missing...Warsha Nasser, the SMRC state director, said the shafts had been decommissioned and were no longer in use. He noted that miners had illegally entered the site and removed structural supports, causing the shafts to become unstable and collapse...

Warsha said the company has launched a safety initiative for 2026 to prevent further collapses...

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