Illegal workers die in the South African mine: the authorities promised to smoke them
South Africa police at the mine, archive photo In the abandoned mine in South Africa, illegal workers die from hunger and diseases. Earlier, the authorities promised to smoke "these criminals." The story tells the Associated Press. Today, January 14, the authorities got 34 survivors and 24 dead from the mine. More than five hundred gold miners are underground, about a hundred of them have already died, the human rights activists say.