Death toll from South African mine siege rises to 78, rescued now at 166

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00:00We are sitting at 166 alive persons that have been retrieved from the camp, and we are going

00:27to see how many alive persons that have been retrieved from underground. The number of

00:34deceased has risen, we are sitting at 78. So just for today it's 22 alive persons that

00:41have been retrieved, 18 bodies for today only.

00:46Our mandate, like I've indicated, was to combat criminality, and that is exactly what

01:00we are doing, and it's exactly what we've been doing. We've never blocked any shafts,

01:05we've never blocked anyone from coming out. We simply said we cannot entertain illegal

01:12mining, and by providing food, water, necessities to these illegal miners, it would be the police

01:20entertaining and allowing criminality to thrive.