Standoff in South Africa ends with 87 miners dead and anger over police’s ‘smoke them out’ tactics
Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground at an abandoned gold mine in South Africa has risen to at least 87.
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.
In South Africa, a government crackdown on an illegal gold mine led to a state siege, causing 78 deaths. Volunteers ...
South African rescuers have pulled out 36 dead bodies and 82 survivors from a gold mine deep underground in two days of ...
Hundreds are still trapped at the Stilfontein gold mine, a rights group said. Authorities tried to flush out the miners by ...
In a police crackdown at an illegal gold mine in Stilfontein, South Africa, 78 people died and hundreds were rescued. The ...
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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 ...
The Acting Provincial Commissioner of North West, Major General Patrick Asaneng, speaks to journalists outside an abandoned ...
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South African authorities have come under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have ...
“This tragedy is eerily reminiscent of the Marikana massacre, where 34 miners were killed by live ammunition in a ...
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