Five miners die at Gold Fields mine

Five miners died from smoke inhalation at a Gold Fields mine in South Africa on Saturday as they worked underground, the company said on Sunday. The deaths are a setback for the government and the industry as they try to improve safety and reduce fatalities in South Africa's mines, which are the deepest in the world.
In 2011, for the first time in living memory, the country's mining sector recorded no "disaster", defined as a single incident in which four or more workers die. Fourteen miners were admitted to hospital after Saturday's incident at the company's KDC West mine, Gold Fields said in a statement.