60 die in Darfur goldmine collapse Dozens of people have been killed in a goldmine collapse in Sudan's Darfur, where fighting over the precious metal in January led to the region's worst unrest in years. It is not known how many people may still be missing after Monday's accident. "The number of people who died is more than 60," Haroun al-Hassan, the local commissioner in Jebel Amir, North Darfur, said on Thursday, adding that rescue operations were ongoing. "I cannot give exact figures because no one got precise numbers of how many people were going inside the tunnel," which went down 40 metres, he said. Rescuers were using traditional tools to reach the victims, he said, without specifying whether anyone might still be alive. We cannot use machines because if they came near, the ground will collapse. People are using traditional tools and because of this, the rescue is very slow," Hassan said. Seven weeks of clashes between two Arab tribes in Jebel Amir during January and February killed more than 500 members of one. The violence uprooted an estimated 100,000 people.