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South Africa Charges Miners in Deaths

JOHANNESBURG?Two weeks after police shot into a crowd of protesting miners here, killing 34, in one of the worst instances of labor violence since the end of apartheid, authorities filed murder charges against fellow miners for those deaths, opposition officials said.

The National Prosecuting Authority on Thursday charged the 270 miners arrested following the Aug. 16 police shooting at Lonmin PLC's Marikana operation, using an obscure Roman-Dutch common purpose law often used under apartheid.

Calls to the National Prosecuting Authority weren't answered. A spokesman for the prosecuting authority told the Associated Press that while it was police who killed the ...

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