00:00We go now to South Africa, as police announced the end of the rescue operation at the Baffle
00:05stuffing illegal gold mine in which 78 people were killed.
00:10The commissioner in charge stated that the extractions from the mine are complete, however
00:15authorities will conduct a further subway sweep to ensure that no one else is inside
00:21the mine.
00:22The 246 people that were found alive, 128 were Mozambicans, 80 were from Lesotho, 33
00:32were from Zimbabwe and 5 were South Africans.
00:35In November, the authorities launched an operation to expel the men who were mining illegally
00:41at the closed Baffle stuffing gold mine, cutting off their food and water supply from the surface
00:47for a period of time.
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