South African police open fire

South African police opened fire Thursday on a crowd of striking miners that charged a line of officers trying to disperse them, killing some and wounding others. The police state that the miners opened fire on the police first with the guns they stole from the police earlier that week.
Police declined to offer casualty figures after the shooting at the Lonmin PLC mine near Marikana, a town about 40 miles northwest of Johannesburg. However, police ministry spokesman Zweli Mnisi said late Thursday some of the miners there had been killed as more police and soldiers surrounded the hostels and shacks near Lonmin's shuttered platinum mine.

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