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.
Rescuers seek last bodies in South Africa mine where 78 died in police siege
STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) - South African rescuers were making final efforts on Thursday to ascertain whether anyone was left in an illegal gold mine deep underground where at least 78 people died during a police siege, in what a labour union called a state-sponsored massacre.
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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 ...
Police operation to stamp out illegal mining by blocking food supplies has turned to tragedy as relatives wait for loved ones ...
Rescuers racing to clear a disused South African gold shaft of illegal miners said Thursday a final sweep appeared to show ...
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Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...
South African authorities have ome under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have ...
Hundreds are still trapped at the Stilfontein gold mine, a rights group said. Authorities tried to flush out the miners by ...
No more illegal miners are believed to be trapped underground at a gold mine in South Africa, volunteers working with rescue ...
At least 78 dead bodies have been pulled from an illegal gold mine in South Africa where police cut off food and water ...
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