South African police try to force illegal miners from disused shaft

South African police try to force illegal miners from disused shaft

After weeks of trying to empty an abandoned gold mine, South African police are trying to get illegal miners out of a disused shaft by cutting off supplies. Desperate relatives of the miners gathered there after a minister said the government would “smoke them out.” David Doyle of Reuters has more.

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