A bus, carrying some of the more than 900 rescued miners, transports them from the Sibanye-Stillwater’s Beatrix mine near Welkom in South Africa on February 2, 2018. The miners were trapped for about 30 hours after a shaft elevator stopped working because of a power outage. | Photo Credit: APmore-inAll 955 gold miners who were trapped underground for more than a day in South Africa following a power cut resurfaced unharmed on Friday, the mine’s owner, Sibanye Gold, said. After several hours engineers were able to restore power, allowing the hoist to bring up the miners — who had been trapped since Wednesday evening — in batches. Kin pensiveNervous family members had earlier patiently gathered along the road to the shaft, kept at a distance by security guards.

Source: The Hindu February 02, 2018 06:00 UTC