Emergency rescue workers attempt to free trapped illegal miners at a disused gold mine shaft in South Africa
Eleven workers have been pulled out of an illegal gold mine in South Africa where around 200 were feared trapped on Sunday, rescuers said.
"We have rescued 11 so far, none of them have visible injuries. But they are being assessed by medics," Russel Meiring of the private emergency operators ER24, told AFP from the accident scene.
AFP video and photo journalists also saw the 11 climb out of the mine via a ladder lowered by rescuers into the shaft.