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.
The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve ...
The authorities had at one point limited the miners’ access to food, water and other supplies in a blockade that drew ...
Arguing that the miners had entered the mine without permission, authorities reportedly cracked down by cutting off their ...
Interpol says a major operation targeting illegal gold mining in West Africa has resulted in 200 arrests and the seizure of ...
Rescuers pulled more bodies from a disused gold shaft in South Africa where the death toll climbed to 78 Wednesday as police ...
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