Update:Thousands Stuck In Johannesburg Gold Mine

At Harmony’s Elandsrand mine the third-largest producing gold mine in South Africa,
around 3000 miners were rescued after a hydraulic pressure pipe blew out at a weld and damaged the lift which should have taken them to the surface.

They were trapped at a level slightly more than a mile underground but all were safe and no injuries or deaths reported.

One of the first miners to be rescued was Sethiri Thibile, soon as he got to the surface he grabed a cold beef sandwich and a bottle of water that was given to him when he got to the top.

He said
“I was hungry. We were all hungry,”
“Most of the people are scared and we also have some women miners there underground.”

With no food or water the 32-year-old engineering assistant, was underground for 20.
And others longer.

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