16 people including three children have been killed by suspected toxic gas leaking from a cylinder at an illegal gold mining operation.
with searches being carried out over a 100-metre radius of the site at Boksburg, east of Johannesburg.
Illegal gold miners – known as zama-zamas – had been using nitrate oxide in a large shack where they worked and slept.Spokesman William Ntladi said: ‘The search and recovery team is searching the shacks in and around the area where the cylinder leaked to verify if there are other casualties nearby. ‘We do not know when the gas started leaking but when the emergency teams arrived at around 8pm on Wednesday night the cylinder which had leaked into the shack was already empty.’
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