Trapped South African miners resorted to CANNIBALISM and snacked on cockroaches
Trapped South African miners resorted to CANNIBALISM and snacked on cockroaches
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A group of illegal miners trapped underground in a gold mine were forced to eat each other to survive their horror ordeal. A team of 402 illegal miners became trapped in the depths of Buffelsfontein Gold Mine in South Africa but only 324 of them emerged when they were pulled out. Seventy-eight of them met a grim fate after being eaten by their colleagues at the mine around 95 miles outside of Johannesburg.
It ended a months-long standoff between the miners and police, in which their food and water supply was cut off in the hopes of forcing them out. Two of the survivors, who have been bailed after being charged with gold possession and illegal mining, has spoken out on the horrors they endured to stay alive.
"They cut parts of legs, arms, and ribs for sustenance. They decided it was their only remaining option for survival," one told The Telegraph. Another rescue worker said he could no longer eat meat after finding the rotting bodies of the people who had been eaten.
"Those bodies really smelled bad... they told me some of them had to eat other [people] inside the mine because there was no way they could find food. And they were also eating cockroaches", he told the BBC. Some have praised the police response to the stand off and for cutting off their food supply while others say they've committed one of the most "horrific displays of wilful of negligence in recent history".
