South Africa accused of 'horrific' crackdown as 78 corpses pulled from besieged mine
By Nellie Peyton and Bhargav Acharya STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) -At least 78 illegal miners have been pulled out dead from a South African mine where police blocked food and water supplies for months in what trade unions described as a "horrific" state crackdown on desperate people trying to eke out a living.
60 bodies pulled from illegal mine in South Africa, many more trapped
Hundreds are still trapped at the Stilfontein gold mine, a rights group said. Authorities tried to flush out the miners by depriving them of food and water.
Rescuers and volunteers pull more bodies of dead workers from abandoned gold mine in South Africa
Rescuers continued retrieving bodies Wednesday from an abandoned South African gold mine with hundreds more still believed to be underground, many of them dead and others too weak to come out on their own.
Body Count From South African Mine Rescue Operation Rises to 60
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African rescuers have pulled at least 60 bodies from the Stilfontein gold mine over two days, police said in a statement late on Tuesday.
Dozens of Bodies Recovered From Illegal Mine in South Africa
The authorities had at one point limited the miners’ access to food, water and other supplies in a blockade that drew criticism from human rights groups.
Dozens of survivors and dead pulled from abandoned South African mine as hundreds remain underground
Rescuers have sent a cagelike structure into one of South Africa’s deepest gold mines to bring out survivors among hundreds of miners working illegally in an abandoned shaft who have been trapped for months.
At least 100 people reportedly dead in illegal South African gold mine as rescues continue
Arguing that the miners had entered the mine without permission, authorities reportedly cracked down by cutting off their access to food and water.
Dead bodies seen in videos from South African mine
In one of the videos released by a trade union, the General Industries Workers of South Africa (Giwusa), dozens of shirtless men can be seen sitting on a dirty floor. Their faces have been blurred. A male voice off camera can be heard saying that the men are hungry and need help.
Why hundreds of miners are still trapped and starving in abandoned South Africa mine
South African authorities have ome under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have been trapped deep in an abandoned gold mine for months
South Africa vows to arrest trapped miners
South African officials will arrest hundreds of miners trapped in an abandoned illegal gold mine, the country’s mining minister said, despite a judge’s warning that the ordeal risks turning into “the darkest point” in the country’s history following dozens of deaths.
South African Police: 118 Illegal Miners Extracted From Stilfontein Mine, 36 of Those Dead
One hundred and eighteen illegal miners have been extracted from the Stilfontein mine in South Africa on Monday and Tuesday as part of a rescue operation, of which 36 were certified as dead, police said in a statement on Tuesday.
Death toll from South African mine siege rises to 78, rescued now at 166
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Relatives wait for news as body bags hauled from South African mine
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