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An elevator suddenly dropped around 200 meters (656 feet) while carrying workers to the surface in a platinum mine in South Africa, killing 11 and injuring 75 — 14 of them critically, the mine operator said Tuesday. It happened Monday evening at the end of the workers’ shift at a mine in the northern city…

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — An elevator suddenly dropped around 200 metres (656 feet) while carrying workers to the surface in a platinum mine in South Africa, killing 11 and injuring 75 — 14 of them critical...

A mine operator says an elevator suddenly dropped approximately 656 feet while carrying workers to the surface.

South Africa is the world's largest producer of platinum. The Impala Rustenburg mine has nine shafts and was the world's largest platinum mine by production last year.

Impala Platinum has confirmed that as of late Tuesday 75 employees involved in Monday's shaft accident remain hospitalised, 14 of whom are in critical condition.

JOHANNESBURG (AP) – An elevator suddenly dropped around 200 metres while carrying workers to the surface in a platinum mine in South Africa, killing 11 and injuring 75 — 14 of them critically, the mine operator said Tuesday. It happened Monday evening at the end of the workers’ shift at a mine in the northern […]

JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- An elevator suddenly dropped around 656 feet while carrying workers to the surface in a platinum mine in South Africa, killing 11 and injuring 75 -- 14 of them critically, the mine operator said Tuesday.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has called on all stakeholders to assist the chief inspector of mines in the investigation into the deaths of 11 miners at Rustenburg’s Impala Platinum mine shaft 11 on Monday.

The Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union accused Impala Platinum mine of negligence after 11 workers died and 75 were injured at its mine in Rustenburg on Monday.

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