No sign of life at Stilfontein shaft as rescue operation winds down

An operation to extract illegal miners in Stilfontein which began on Monday has led to the extraction of 324 people by Wednesday afternoon, of whom 246 are alive. The others are bodies and human remains. . “All have been processed and corpses have been handed to pathological services to do the necessary to determine the causes of death. It is an elaborate process to determine when and how the people died,” said North West police commissioner Maj-Gen Patrick Asaneng on Wednesday evening. He said of the 246 live miners, 128 are from Mozambique, 80 from Lesotho, 33 from Zimbabwe…