Rescuers pull survivors and dead out of mine with hundreds trapped in South Africa

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Rescuers on Tuesday sent a cage-like structure into one of South Africa's deepest mines in an attempt to pull out survivors among hundreds of illegal miners trapped underground for months in an abandoned shaft. teleSUR

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00:00The South Africa operation is on the way to rescue a group of miners trapped in a gold

00:06mine.

00:07Group Mining Affected Communities United in Action says at least 400 men are still trapped

00:12and many have died.

00:13Zabailo Nguni, spokesman for the group mining, said a cell phone sent to the surface with

00:19some miners rescued on Friday had two videos showing dozens of bodies on the ground wrapped

00:23in plastic.

00:24Nguni also said a minimum of 100 men had died, suspected of starvation or dehydration.

00:30A professional mine rescue company has so far sent a large cage into the mine shaft

00:34near Stilfontine, about 140 km southwest of Johannesburg, and it has been confirmed by

00:39SUKUSI Jam, the South African national civic organization, that same people have been rescued.

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