South African police have ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine where hundreds of illegal miners were trapped for months and say they believe they have rescued all the survivors and retrieved all the bodies of those who died. They said they had retrieved 78 bodies and rescued 246 survivors.
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Rescuers would do a final sweep of the mine on Thursday, said Maj.-Gen. Patrick Asaneng, the acting police commissioner for North West province.Dozens of survivors and dead pulled from abandoned South African mine as hundreds remain undergroundon the South African government’s decision last year to try to force out the miners by cutting off their food and other supplies.
South Africa’s second biggest political party, which is part of a government coalition, has called for an independent inquiry to find out “why the situation was allowed to get so badly out of hand.”Authorities launched the rescue effort on Monday in response to a court order last week ordering them to do so.
However, Mzukisi Jam, a spokesperson for the South African National Civics Organisation, said that there were more bodies at another shaft and demanded to know what was going to happen with them. “What are we going to tell the relatives?” he said on TV station Newzroom Afrika. Police have said they were carrying out their mandate to “combat criminality” and said they seized gold, explosives, firearms and more than $2 million in cash from the miners. They said the vast majority were foreign nationals from Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Lesotho and in South Africa illegally.One of the civic groups representing the miners released two videos over the weekend showing what it said were the dire conditions underground.
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