Footage provided by illegal miners who escaped weeks of being trapped underground after a police raid showed dozens of dead bodies and other miners clinging to life with ribs showing from lack of food or water. The two videos, which Reuters verified, were obtained on Monday by South African miners’ rights group Mining Affected Communities United in Action (MACUA) from miners emerging from the gold mine in Northwest Province on Jan. 10, when a pulley was restored to the bottom of the cavern.
A Reuters reporter counted three dozen bodies in the footage, and a group representing the miners said there were at least 100 dead.
(Reporting By Sfundo Parakozov; Editing by Tim Cocks and Mark Heinrich)
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