(Reuters) - At least 31 people were killed in the collapse of a private gold mine in western Sudan, a mining official told Reuters on Tuesday.

       "Thirty-one bodies were recovered after the collapse of a gold mine in En Nahud？ ？locality in West Kurdufan state. Only one person was rescued alive," said Khaled Dahweya, director of government-owned Sudanese Mineral Resources Company.

       (Reporting by Khalid Abdel Aziz; Writing by Ahmad Elhamy; Editing by Alex Richardson)