News24 reports that Gauteng police said on Sunday that seven bodies were retrieved from a mine in Homestead, Primrose, Johannesburg, on Saturday.

On 17 March 2022, the police were informed of alleged illegal miners who were trapped in the mine. Eight unidentified bodies were retrieved while it was suspected that there might still be more bodies trapped in the mine hole, Colonel Dimakatso Sello indicated. The retrieval of the seven bodies on Saturday brought the total number of bodies retrieved from the mine to 15.

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Canny Maphanga at News24

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