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16 Aug 2012

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BBC

Casualties at South Africa's Lonmin Marikana mine

Police in South Africa have opened fire on striking workers at the Marikana platinum mine in North West province. Two eyewitnesses...[said] they saw several bodies on the ground. The mine, owned by Lonmin, has been at the centre of a violent industrial dispute exacerbated by inter-union tensions. Earlier this week nine people died in clashes there.

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