Protests at Lonmin's South African mine leave dozens more dead

Riot police have shot dead dozens of miners at Lonmin's Marikana platinum project in South Africa, as a week of protests over pay have turned the FTSE 250 group's mine into a warzone.

Riot police have shot dead dozens of miners at Lonmin's Marikana platinum project in South Africa, as a week of protests over pay have turned the FTSE 250 group's mine into a warzone.

In what The Guardian labels as "one of the deadliest days of protest in South Africa since the end of apartheid", more than 30 workers who were on strike at Marikana were gunned down by authorities, according to the South African police ministry.

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