South African Miners' Death Toll Rises
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•Standoff in South Africa ends with 87 miners dead and anger over police tactics
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South African authorities have been fiercely criticized for cutting off food and supplies to the miners in the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine last year .
Authorities faced growing anger and a possible investigation over their initial refusal to help the miners and instead “smoke them out” by cutting off their food supplies.
The miners are suspected to have died of starvation and dehydration, although no causes of death have been released.
Authorities believe that nearly 2,000 miners were working illegally in the mine near the town of Stilfontein .
Police said they seized gold, explosives, firearms and more than $2 million in cash from the miners.
The majority of those who came out of the Buffelsfontein mine were from Mozambique , Zimbabwe and Lesotho who were in South Africa illegally.
The South African Federation of Trade Unions questioned the government’s humanity.
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