Mine supervisors held hostage freed
Updated on 10 July 2009
Four supervisors being held hostage by 500 miners in an underground protest have been released, the management of a platinum mine in South Africa has said.
The miners are holding a "sit-in" 30 metres (100 feet) below the surface at Eastern Platinum's Crocodile River mine northwest of Johannesburg.
Charmane Russell, a spokeswoman for the Canadian-based mining company, said the supervisors were released early on Friday evening.
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