Police in South Africa are refusing to help hundreds of miners trapped underground in North West province. Authorities in Stilfontein closed the entrance as part of a campaign against illegal mining. It's left those inside without food and water—and at least one body has been brought out.
Al Jazeera’s Haru Mutasa reports from the site.
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