SIX KILLED IN SOUTH AFRICAN GOLD MINE ACCIDENT
Six black miners have been killed
and two injured in a rock fall three km underground at a South
African gold mine, the owners said on Sunday.
    <Rand Mines Properties Ltd>, one of South Africa's big six
mining companies, said in a statement that the accident
occurred on Saturday morning at the <East Rand Proprietary
Mines Ltd> mine at Boksburg, 25 km east of Johannesburg.
    A company spokesman could not elaborate on the short
statement.
 REUTER
