Miners at an abandoned South African mining shaft are starving due to police limiting supplies to force out the hundreds of people believed to be stuck underground, according to a community leader and a miner who was rescued on Friday.
“There’s nothing left for someone to eat, to drink or anything that can make a human being survive. There is nothing left underground for now,” Ayanda Ndabeni, 35, who was hoisted out of the shaft on Friday, said on Sunday.
In the past week, about a dozen people have resurfaced from the mine after authorities blocked locals from lowering food and water…