No Illegal Miners Remain in South Africa's Stilfontein Mine After Deadly Siege

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No Illegal Miners Remain in South Africa's Stilfontein Mine After Deadly Siege
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Rescuers confirmed that no illegal miners remain in the Stilfontein mine in South Africa after a police operation that resulted in the recovery of 87 bodies and the rescue of 1,907 miners.

, concluding that no illegal miners remain underground after 78 bodies and over 200 miners were brought to the surface this week.

Rescuers, using a camera-equipped cage, confirmed that the shaft, extending 2.6 kilometres deep, held no remaining individuals. Investigators face ‘a mammoth task’ in identifying the dead, as some of the bodies were already decomposing, and in some cases just bones, national spokesperson Athlenda Mathe told journalists at the site on Thursday.

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