South Africa mine rescue ends, anger rises over 78 deaths in police siege
Stilfontein, South Africa Reuters South African rescuers ended their attempts on Thursday to find anyone left in an illegal gold mine where at least 78 people died during a police siege, as a local volunteer described the horror of extracting their bodies from deep underground. Police had encircled the mine since August and cut off […]
South Africa accused of ‘horrific’ crackdown as 78 corpses pulled from illegal mine
Stilfontein, South Africa Reuters At least 78 dead bodies have been pulled from an illegal gold mine in South Africa where police cut off food and water supplies for months, in what trade unions called a “horrific” crackdown on desperate people trying to eke out a living. A total of 246 survivors, some of them […]
South Africa pulls 36 corpses from illegal mine, arrests 82 survivors
Stilfontein, South Africa Reuters South African rescuers have pulled out 36 dead bodies and 82 survivors from a gold mine deep underground in two days of operations, police said on Tuesday, adding that the survivors would all face illegal mining and immigration charges. Police began laying siege to the mine in August and cut off […]
South Africa’s Ramaphosa calls for safe recovery of illegal miners stuck underground
Johannesburg, South Africa Reuters South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday lives should not be put at risk in a standoff between police and hundreds of illegal miners stuck underground in a disused mine shaft and the miners should be recovered safely. The police have blocked miners’ supplies of food and water to force […]