South African rescuers pull corpses and survivors from gold mine

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South African rescuers have pulled out 36 dead bodies and 82 survivors from a gold mine deep underground in two days of operations, police said on Tuesday, adding that the survivors would all face illegal mining and immigration charges. - REUTERS

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00:00South African rescuers have hauled up dozens of miners and dead bodies from an abandoned

00:06gold mine. That was according to police on Tuesday, after two days of operations at the

00:11site in the town of Stilfontaine. Police began laying siege to the mine in August as part

00:17of a crackdown on illegal mining. Authorities have said survivors will face illegal mining

00:23and immigration charges. Here is Mzukizi Jam, a spokesperson at the South African National

00:29Civics Organization. Yesterday they told us that about more than 400 people are still

00:35stuck down there, need to be extracted. And they also told us that the number of dead

00:40bodies is actually more than 100. Police had previously cut off food and water supplies

00:46in an attempt to force the miners to the surface so they could be arrested. Now they are retrieving

00:52survivors and dead bodies. Footage issued by a miners' rights group on Monday had shown

00:57dozens of corpses and skeletal survivors inside the mine.

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