Rescue teams search for two SANDF members in Roodepoort mine shaft
Rescue teams are currently conducting an operation to locate two South African National Defence Force (SANDF) members who fell into a disused mine shaft in Roodepoort in Johannesburg on Friday morning.
Gauteng police spokesperson Brenda Muridili says, “At approximately 06:00 this morning, SA National Defence Force members conducting an anti-illegal mining operation at the unused and abandoned CRD Mine in West Johannesburg spotted suspected illegal miners (zama-zamas) exiting the underground workings and a pursuit of the suspects ensued into a tunnel.
During the pursuit, two members of the team tragically slipped and fell into an open, abandoned vertical mine shaft.
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