Hundreds trapped in South African gold mine
2,193 views · Published 16 February 2014 · 3:58 · Indexed 20 September 2026
Channel: Al Jazeera English · 2014 · News & Politics
More than 200 miners have been trapped in an abandoned gold shaft east of Johannesburg, South Africa, an emergency services spokesman has said. In an interview with Al Jazeera, Werner Vermaak, said that emergency personnnel do not know they the miners were phycially injured. But some of them said they were dehydrated.
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