Topic: 'Mine Shooting'

South Africans Shaken by Massacre of Striking Miners

A policeman gestures in front of some of the dead miners after they were shot outside a South African mine in Rustenburg,
REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko

News cameras captured horrific images of riot police gunning down dozens of striking workers at a South African platinum mine yesterday, in a "bloodbath" that recalls some of the worst of that country's apartheid-era protests

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