Egypt accused of deadly attack on gold mine

The attack took place last Saturday in a disputed border region located in northern Sudan and southern Egypt respectively. The human rights organization, The Emergency Lawyers, accuses Egypt of being behind the attack, something that the AFP news agency could not confirm. Egypt has not commented on the incident.

An eyewitness told AFP that he saw a fighter plane that "fired five times" and that many people were killed.

The mining area, which is located in the natural resource-rich so-called Halaib Triangle, was exposed as recently as June to an attack in which 23 people were killed.

Also blamed was the Egyptian military, which did not claim responsibility for the attack but said it had carried out a "large-scale operation" against illegal gold mining in its territory.