South African police on Wednesday concluded a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine and reported that they believe they have rescued all the survivors and recovered all the bodies of the dead after hundreds of miners were trapped for months in one of the country's deepest mines while working illegally. teleSUR
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00:00We go now to South Africa, as police announced the end of the rescue operation at the Baffle
00:05stuffing illegal gold mine in which 78 people were killed.
00:10The commissioner in charge stated that the extractions from the mine are complete, however
00:15authorities will conduct a further subway sweep to ensure that no one else is inside
00:21the mine.
00:22The 246 people that were found alive, 128 were Mozambicans, 80 were from Lesotho, 33
00:32were from Zimbabwe and 5 were South Africans.
00:35In November, the authorities launched an operation to expel the men who were mining illegally
00:41at the closed Baffle stuffing gold mine, cutting off their food and water supply from the surface
00:47for a period of time.