The mine's operator says an elevator carrying workers back up to the surface, malfunctioned and fell. More than 70 others were wounded.
Eleven miners have died and another 75 were injured in South Africa after an elevator carrying workers back up to the surface, malfunctioned and fell, the mine's operator said on Tuesday.
"Eighty-six employees were standing in the lifting mechanism when it unexpectedly started going down again," a spokesman for Impala Platinum told AFP, explaining 11 lost their lives and 75 were taken to hospital.
South Africa is the world's leading platinum producing country. In 2022, mine production of platinum in South Africa reached an estimated 140 metric tonnes, according to Statista.
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