North Dafur refutes death toll at Sudan gold mine
Khartoum: The government of North Darfur has dismissed death figures circulated in the media this week of about 100 miners who were trapped last week inside a collapsed gold mine in the Jebel Amir district of Sudan, more than 200km north-west of the North Darfur state capital, El Fasher.
allAfrica.com reports that in a statement signed by North Darfur acting governor al-Fatih Abdel-Aziz Abdel-Nabi, the government said that a committee headed by the al-Siraif mayor had visited the mine area on Saturday, 4 May 2013.
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