At least 72 gold-mining workers have been killed in air strikes near the Sudan–Egypt border, according to Emergency Lawyers, a Sudanese human rights and legal aid organisation quoted by Deutsche Welle. The organisation accuses the Egyptian air force of carrying out the attack. Neither the death toll nor responsibility for the strikes has been independently confirmed.
Emergency Lawyers said the attack took place on Saturday 10 October 2026 in a remote, mountainous area south of the Halaib Triangle, east of the Nile. The organisation reported it the following day and maintains that the area struck lies within Sudan.
The location is important to understanding the reports: as DW notes, both Egypt and Sudan claim the Halaib Triangle. The territorial dispute does not, however, establish who carried out the attack. According to DW, Egypt had not commented on the reported strikes by the time its article was published on 11 October.
Sudan Doctors Network, a network of Sudanese doctors, warned that the death toll could rise because of serious injuries and difficulties accessing medical care. That warning concerns the risks facing those injured; it is not confirmation of a higher death toll.
The remoteness of the site also makes it difficult to independently establish what happened, DW notes. The figure of at least 72 dead remains a toll reported by Emergency Lawyers, just as the accusation against the Egyptian air force remains the organisation’s allegation.
