South African Police Lower Cage Into Mine to Check if Anyone Left After 78 Died
South African police lowered a camera down more than a mile (1.5 km) underground into an illegal gold mine on Thursday to ascertain if any survivors or corpses were still there after a months-long siege by authorities in which at least 78 miners died.
Rights groups say police used starvation as a weapon to force out illegal miners, resulting in close to 80 deaths.
In South Africa, a government crackdown on an illegal gold mine led to a state siege, causing 78 deaths. Volunteers ...
Standing near the rim of a nearly 2-mile deep shaft, Zinzi Tom waited for word of her brother as the authorities began a long ...
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The clampdown on illegal mining cut off food and water to hundreds of miners underground. At least 78 bodies were pulled from ...
At least 78 dead bodies have been pulled from an illegal gold mine in South Africa where police cut off food and water ...
Hundreds are still trapped at the Stilfontein gold mine, a rights group said. Authorities tried to flush out the miners by ...
“This tragedy is eerily reminiscent of the Marikana massacre, where 34 miners were killed by live ammunition in a ...
South African rescuers have pulled out 36 dead bodies and 82 survivors from a gold mine deep underground in two days of ...
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