‘Mammoth task’ to identify bodies, police say

It will be a “major task” to identify the bodies found in a disused mine in South Africa this week, a police spokesman said.

Seventy-eight bodies, along with more than 240 illegal miners, have been brought ashore since Monday as part of the rescue operation, Brig Athlenda Mathe told reporters near the top of the Stilfontein mine.

They were underground since at least November.

It was here that the government officials insisted on ending illegal mining activities around the entrance to the river and denying the flow of food and water.

The police always said that the miners were free to leave at any time.

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The mine has now been cleared of all bodies and lives, police said.

Only two of the deceased have been diagnosed with the disease, Brig Mathe said.

“Some of them [the corpses] they were rotting bodies that came out mostly like bones,” he added.

DNA tests are underway but another obvious challenge is that “many of the [those found] and undocumented immigrants,” he added.

Most of those who came alive were from neighboring countries such as Mozambique and Zimbabwe.

Labor and human rights activists have accused the authorities of overseeing the killings.

But the police have defended what they are doing by saying that they are fighting criminals and the chiefs who are in charge of illegal mining are the ones who manage the management of property and want people not to come back.

During Tuesday’s march, police and mining ministers were heckled and told to leave by angry mobs who blamed the government for the death.

Police said more than 1,500 miners reached the surface before rescue operations began.

However, some continued underground, either because they were afraid of being arrested or because they were forced to live there by the gangsters who controlled the mine.

Many mines in South Africa have been abandoned over the past three decades by companies that have not found them financially viable.

The mines have been taken over by pirates, often ex-workers, who sell the mines they find on the black market.

This includes the Stilfontein mine, located 145km (90 miles) southwest of the country’s largest city, Johannesburg, which has been a major target of government efforts to crack down on the illegal business.

A rescue cage was running down the shaft to reach the miners who are thought to be 2km (1.2 miles) underground.

Many of the survivors had been without food and water since November, leaving them exhausted. He is currently undergoing treatment.

Authorities say they have been charged with mining violations, immigration violations and immigration violations because most of the mine’s workers are undocumented.

“It’s a crime against the economy, it’s an attack on the economy,” said mining minister Gwede Mantashe on Wednesday as he defended the protests against miners.

South Africa was heavily dependent on miners from countries such as Lesotho and Mozambique before the trade began to collapse.

Unemployment in South Africa is currently over 30% and many former miners say they have no other means of income.