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Dozens of Dead Pulled From Illegal South African Gold Mine

Why did 87 miners die trapped underground in South Africa as police tried to force their surrender?

South Africa's president is facing calls to order an inquiry into a police operation that was meant to combat illegal mining but ended up leaving 87 miners to die underground as authorities attempted to force them to surrender during a monthslong standoff.

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Dozens of Dead Pulled From Illegal South African Gold Mine After Standoff With Authorities

The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve them out.

Greek Reporter · 18h

South Africa Gold Mine Rescue Ends Amid Outrage Over 78 Deaths

An effort to rescue survivors in an illegal gold mine where at least 78 people died in South Africa was put an end on Thursday.

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Inside South Africa's Illegal Gold Mine Siege: A Deadly Showdown

A deadly siege on an illegal gold mine near Stilfontein, South Africa, has resulted in at least 78 miner deaths, with ...

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Next Africa: How the South African Mining Tragedy Unfolded

South African rescue workers retrieved 78 bodies from a disused gold mine in Stilfontein where hundreds of illegal extractors have been involved in a months-long standoff with the authorities. Civil ...

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'Mammoth task' to identify South Africa mine victims, police say

It will be a "mammoth task" to identify the bodies brought up from a disused mineshaft in South Africa this week, a police ...

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 ...

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