The rescue of hundreds of miners in a deep South African gold mine began with a camera and a note

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  South African police launch hunt for alleged illegal mining ‘kingpin’

  Escape of James Neo Tshoaeli, a Lesotho national known as Tiger, described as an ‘embarrassment’. South African police are hunting an alleged “kingpin” of illegal mining after he escaped from ...
  
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• Hundreds of Miners Were Trapped for Months---Until an Extraordinary Two-Man Rescue Mission

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• South Africa arrests over 100 illegal miners after underground rescue

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  Yahoo News - Jan. 14

• 100 people reportedly dead in South African mine as rescues continue

  Arguing that the miners had entered the mine without permission, authorities reportedly cracked down by cutting off their access to food and water.
  
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  Rescuers bring out survivors and dead from a South African mine as hundreds remain trapped

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