/ 30 July 1999

18 DEAD IN MINE DISASTER

THE bodies of 15 of the 18 miners killed in an underground explosion at the Mponeng mine at Carletonville south-west of Johannesburg were brought to the surface at midday on Friday. One miner is still missing and it’s not known whether he is alive or dead. Twenty miners working in the area at the time of the blast were safely evacuated.