Hundreds of miners who spent three days underground as part of a union dispute are leaving a gold mine in South Africa.
Hundreds of miners who spent three days underground as part of a union dispute were leaving a gold mine in South Africa on Wednesday, the union at the center of the standoff said. More than 100 miners who were held against their will by fellow employees of the mine near Johannesburg escaped earlier, a mine official said. More than 550 mine workers had been in the mine since they went down late Sunday.
Early Wednesday, 109 miners had forced their way out, said Ziyaad Hassam, the head of legal at Gold One International, the company that owns the mine. “This morning, they banded together and overpowered those controlling them and blocking the exits,” Hassam said. “They are tired, exhausted and dehydrated.” They had given statements to police and been examined at a clinic, but none appeared to have any serious injuries, Hassam said.
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