South Africa police launch manhunt for illegal mining 'kingpin'

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  South Africa police: Officers let ringleader in illegal gold mine disaster escape

  South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about a week after resurfacing from a disused mine in South Africa where 246 ...
  
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  South African police say ringleader in illegal gold mining disaster allowed to escape by officers

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• Rescuers pull survivors and bodies from abandoned South Africa gold mine

  A rescue team in South Africa has finished a recovery operation to find more than 200 miners trapped in an abandoned gold mine. CBS News foreign correspondent Chris Livesay reports.
  
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  'Mammoth task' to identify South Africa mine victims, police say

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• Dozens of Dead Pulled From Illegal South African Gold Mine After Standoff

  The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve them out.
  
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  At least 78 dead at abandoned South Africa gold mine that was scene of a standoff

  Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold mine
  
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• South Africa arrests over 100 illegal miners after underground rescue

  Hundreds more still trapped since August in abandoned gold mine with dozens dead
  
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  Rescuers pull more bodies from South Africa gold mine

  Hundreds of people have reportedly been underground since a crackdown on illegal mining began last year.
  
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  South Africa police find 26 naked Ethiopians held by suspected traffickers

  Three people arrested after group escapes Johannesburg house by breaking a window and burglar bar. South African police have rescued 26 Ethiopians from a suspected human trafficking ring in ...
  
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