Trapped South African miners arrested after escape
Ten illegal gold miners have emerged from an old South African mine, with more still underground.
Some of the men came out after being told there were no
police around - but all 10 have now been arrested by police who had been
hiding, The miners are reported to have been trapped by a rival group.
Those underground are once more refusing to leave the mine shaft for fear of being arrested.
The landscape around the abandoned mine near Johannesburg is dotted with similar abandoned shafts - attracting men from around the region with the promise of remaining gold deposits.
The miners have been using this ventilation shaft to come up
Previous reports suggested as many as 200 fellow miners remained underground, but our correspondent says the latest estimates put the figure far lower, at about 15.
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