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Death toll from South African mine siege rises to 78, rescued now at 166 (www.reuters.com)
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South African rescuers have so far pulled 78 bodies and rescued 166 people from the Stilfontein gold mine over three days of operations, police spokesperson Athlenda Mathe told reporters at the scene on Wednesday.

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[–] originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Our mandate was to combat criminality and that is exactly what we've been doing," she said. "By providing food, water and necessities to these illegal miners it would be the police entertaining and allowing criminality to thrive."

Oh my god

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 7 points 1 month ago

Answering basic human needs makes a breeding ground for criminality! Noted!

[–] HaleHirsute@infosec.pub 2 points 1 month ago

This situation is insane, they were trying to starve out hundreds of people underground.