🔶 Two Egyptian army officers were killed in an operation against illegal gold mining on the border of Sudan.
The "Arabnews" website reported that two Egyptian army officers were killed during a military operation against illegal gold mining on the country's southern border with Sudan. One of the dead was a senior commander in the Egyptian border guard.
Colonel Gharib Abdul Hafez, the official spokesman for Egypt's armed militant forces, released this news on Thursday evening, November 5, but did not announce the date of the incident.
According to Abdul Hafez, this military operation began in June this year in the eastern desert of Egypt, its first three phases have been completed and the fourth phase will begin on Saturday, November 7.
The Egyptian army declared the purpose of this operation to "strengthen the government's control over the country's territory and protect the national resources". According to official statistics, since the beginning of the operation, 151 Egyptian citizens and 540 foreigners have been arrested. The Sudan Mineral Resources Company has previously warned that following the civil war in Sudan, traditional and informal gold mining has increased in the north of the country and gold has become one of the vital sources of income for the region's residents and smugglers.