Lonmin Miner Cheats Death as Police Open Fire on Strikers
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Khanyisile Soboyce thought he was next to die when he saw two fellow miners felled by police gunfire through a cloud of green teargas smoke at a Lonmin Plc mine in South Africa last week.
One of the men was shot in the head, the other in the chest, Soboyce, 35, said in an interview on Aug. 17, the day after police opened fire on striking miners with automatic weapons, killing 34 and wounding 78. Soboyce, a locomotive operator at Lonmin’s Marikana mine, saved himself by crawling under an armored police truck during the volley of gunfire.