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South Africa Mine Shooting Leaves Many Dead

South Africa's police chief says officers who killed 34 striking miners were acting in self defence.

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  Forensics officers have been searching the area and collecting weapons.
  

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  At least 30 people have been killed and dozens more injured in the violence.
  

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  Police are patrolling the area and the mine is closed after the deaths.
  

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  Thousands of striking miners armed with machetes and sticks faced off with South African police at Lonmin's Marikana mine.
  

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  Policemen line up and fire at striking miners.
  

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  A policeman fires at protesting miners armed with spears and sticks.
  

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  Paramedics carry an injured man after the volley of shots outside the South African mine in Rustenburg.
  

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  Striking miners chant slogans.
  

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  Sky News' Africa correspondent Alex Crawford said the trouble had started with a turf war between two rival unions.
  

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  The leader of a group of striking miners addresses his colleagues.
  

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  The mine in Rustenburg is about 60 miles northwest of Johannesburg.
  

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South Africa's police chief says officers who killed 34 striking miners were acting in self defence.

Speaking at a news conference, she gave details of the shooting at the Lonmin PLC platinum mine in Marikana, in Rustenburg northwest of Johannesburg, on Thursday.
She said 78 people were wounded in the violence and 259 people arrested.
Police opened fire with automatic weapons when 3,000 striking drill operators armed with machetes and sticks ignored orders to disperse.
The National Union of Mineworkers claims that 36 people have died, with a further 86 people injured.

The mine is around 60 mines from Johannesburg

At least another 10 people - including two police officers - have died during the protest and ensuing violence at the mine, which began a week ago. It has also drastically affected production at the site.
President Jacob Zuma said he was "shocked and dismayed" at what was one of the bloodiest police operations since the end of white-minority rule in 1994.
"We believe there is enough space in our democratic order for any dispute to be resolved through dialogue without any breaches of the law or violence," Mr Zuma said in a statement.
The politician has cut short his government visit to Mozambique to arrive in Rustenburg today.
Lonmin PLC chairman Roger Phillimore said the deaths were deeply regretted but emphasised that the mine considers it "clearly a public order rather than a labour relations-associated matter".
An investigation into the shooting has been launched and heavily armed South African police, backed by armoured vehicles and helicopters, were patrolling the area on Friday.
The walkout appeared to be about wages but the violence has been fuelled by a struggle between the dominant National Union of Mineworkers and the new Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU).
Video footage shows a group of strikers moving towards police. At the point where the footage freezes, a volley of gunshots lasting for some 10 seconds rings out before shouts of "ceasefire" halt the shooting.
When the footage resumes, a number of motionless bodies can be seen where the strikers were.
Journalist Taurai Maduna, who saw what happened, told Sky News: "Shortly before 4pm the police grouped, they fired tear gas and it was just chaos.

The violence has been fuelled by the struggle between unions

"I could hear gunfire, I don't know if it was live ammunition, and the next thing it was police shouting 'ceasefire' and there were just bodies all over. I couldn't see whether people were dead, it was just hectic."
Police had apparently been laying out barricades of barbed wire when they were outflanked by some of the estimated 3,000 miners.
Mr Maduna said it had been "evident" that there could be trouble before the shootings.
He said: "The protesters had gathered at the hill and everyone had something to defend themselves with and when we told them the police were planning to disperse them, they said 'bring them on, we are ready for them'.
"The police said 'by the end of the day we are going to deal with them. Don't ask us how, but we're going to do it'."
Sky's Africa correspondent Alex Crawford said: "It's a really shocking turn of events."
She explained that the strike started on Thursday last week and tensions have since "built up and built up", but it was not yet clear which side sparked the latest killings.
She said: "At least three of the miners were seen holding pistols so it is not clear who fired first."
Three people died during a similar strike in January and 10 people - including police - had been killed during the latest dispute in recent days.
Before the latest shooting, police said they had been left with no option but to disperse the strikers by force after talks with leaders of the radical AMCU broke down.
"Today is unfortunately D-day," spokesman Dennis Adriao said.
And before the police advance, Joseph Mathunjwa, president of AMCU, which has been on a big recruitment push in South Africa's platinum mines, warned there would be bloodshed if police moved in.
"We're going nowhere," he shouted through a loudhailer, to cheers from the crowd. "If need be, we're prepared to die here."
Lonmin, which is based in London, had said striking workers would be sacked if they did not turn up for their shifts on Friday. "The striking (workers) remain armed and away from work," the statement read. "This is illegal."