At least 61 miners were killed when fire tore through an abandoned gold shaft in one of South Africa’s deadliest mine accidents.
The death toll from an underground fire that killed illegal miners at a disused gold mine rose to least 61 on Tuesday, Harmony Gold Mining said.
Cosatu on Tuesday said it was ”shocked and dismayed” by the news of the deaths of 36 illegal miners.
Illegal mining of precious rubies from the northern Mozambican province of Niassa was reaching ”alarming proportions”, a report said on Friday.