Provincial police commissioner Arthur Peter Adams confirmed the scale of the disaster, noting that the victims were digging through an abandoned dump operated by a private entity. While the survivors are identified as citizens of Lesotho, investigators have not yet verified the nationalities of those killed in the catastrophe.
Illegal mining persists as a dangerous and widespread crisis across the region. Operations range from desperate individual efforts to sophisticated syndicate-run sites, bleeding billions from the national economy and industry while frequently ending in preventable loss of life.
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