/ 3 December 2001

CAVE IN KILLS THREE GOLD MINERS

THREE miners died and four were injured in a gold mine at Carletonville on Saturday when an earth tremor caused a gallery to cave in, Anglogold mining company reported. Two survivors were hospitalised with serious injuries in the cave in west of Johannesburg. The accident occurred 2 100 metres underground while the victims were carrying out shoring up operations. The slight tremor registered 1,1 on the Richter scale. – AFP