Methane still levels too high to retrieve bodies of dead illegal miners

25 June 2023 - 00:01
By Hendrik Hancke

Dangerously high levels of methane in a ventilation shaft of an unused mine have prevented rescue workers from retrieving 28 bodies of the 31 illegal miners who died in a gasexplosion last month.

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