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Rescue, then death
A Sudbury, Ontario, miner trapped for 27 hours in a mine collapse that killed three other workers has died of his injuries an hour after being freed. Wayne St Michel, aged 22, died in hospital after rescue teams brought him to the surface after a cave-in at the nickel mine. About 170 other miners managed to scramble to safety when the mine was shaken by rock-slides that registered 3.5 on the Richter scale. — Sudbury.
4 die near oasis An Egyptian photographer, his son and two friends have been found dead of thirst in the desert only 200 metres from a watering hole. The three men and the boy, aged 12, were stranded east of Aswan, 900 km south of Cairo, after they took a wrong track and their car was bogged down. An autopsy showed that they had been
stranded for about 10 days before they died, unaware that they were so close to a water supply. The four were returning from a pilgrimage to a Muslim mausoleum in the region. — Cairo. Zambians held The former Zambian Information Minister, Sikota Wina, and two other Zambians, arrested at Bombay Airport on drug smuggling charges, have been remanded in custody for two weeks. Indian customs officials have said that Wina, Zambia Airways’ marketing director, Samuele Kongwa, and Alfred Juma Demanga were arrested on June 13 when they were boarding a Zambia Airways plane for Lusaka. Customs authorities said they had seized two suitcases, containing ?USIO,OOO worth of Mandrax tablets, which were booked in Wina’s name for the Lusaka flight. — Bombay.
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