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Around 300 workers are trapped underground in the Kloof gold mine’s number seven shaft, South Africa’s National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) told Reuters.
“The incident happened at around 10 pm yesterday,” a spokesperson for NUM told the publication on Friday, May 23.
Newsweek has contacted the National Union of Mineworkers via email for comment. Newsweek has also contacted the mine’s operator, Sibanye-Stillwater, for comment via email to its communications office.
This is a developing story. More to follow.
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