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Lily mine disaster: tears‚ fears‚ and prayers

Picture Credit: www.mining-technology.com
Picture Credit: www.mining-technology.com

Mineworker Themba Mnisi always assumed he would be the one to be trapped underground — he never imagined his daughter would suffer this terrible fate‚ the Sunday Times newspaper reported.

He also never thought he would be standing on the sidelines of a mine tragedy — desperately waiting for news that his child has been found alive.

The 59-year-old’s daughter‚ Yvonne Mnisi‚ 23‚ is one of three employees of Vantage Goldfields’ Lily Mine rescuers have been frantically searching for over the past nine days. Yesterday‚ the operation had to be halted temporarily because of a second landslide.

Yvonne and two of her colleagues‚ Pretty Mabuza‚ 34‚ and Solomon Nyarenda‚ were in a mobile office that plunged 80m into a sinkhole when the road outside the entrance to the mine collapsed last Friday.

 

 

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