Four dead after rock collapse at South African gold mine

Four mineworkers were killed and one was seriously injured after a rock fall at a South African gold mine on Friday trapped five workers underground, the company and a mining union said on Sunday. The collapse at the Village Main Reef's Tau Lekoa gold mine in North West province followed at least one earth tremor. The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) was strongly critical of the mining company, saying in a statement that "there was no escape route in the working area where the four mineworkers were found dead".
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