An underground fire in an abandoned shaft has apparently killed 36 people who were illegally mining, the Harmony Gold Mining Company said Monday. The company said the bodies were brought to the surface by other illegal miners over the weekend at the Eland shaft in central South Africa. In a statement, the company said that it was unclear if other illegal miners had died and that it would not send its own workers in to search, because “the abandoned mining areas where the criminal miners have been active are extremely dangerous.”
Source: New York Times
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