(15 Jan 2025)
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Stilfontein, South Africa – 15 January 2025
1. Emergency workers carrying body bags
2. Pathology services vehicle arriving
3. Various of emergency workers carrying body bags
4. Police and pathology services vehicles
5. Various of emergency workers placing body bags on truck
6. Emergency workers at scene
STORYLINE:
Rescuers continued retrieving bodies Wednesday from an abandoned South African gold mine with hundreds more still believed to be underground, many of them dead and others too weak to come out on their own.
Authorities launched an operation in November to force out the men who were mining illegally at the closed Buffelsfontein Gold Mine by cutting off their food and water supplies from the surface for a period of time. Police say the miners can come out but are refusing for fear of being arrested.
A community-led rescue effort began bringing survivors and bodies out of the Buffelsfontein mine on Friday, while authorities started the official rescue and recovery effort on Monday using a cage lowered into the mine.
According to police, at least 60 bodies have been recovered and more than 90 survivors have been pulled out as of Tuesday evening.
Authorities have also said no official rescue personnel will go down into the mine because it is extremely dangerous. Volunteers from the community who are familiar with the mine have been in the cage as it is dropped deep underground.
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