Rescuers in South Africa have been bringing to the surface illegal miners who had been trapped for more than 24 hours in an abandoned gold shaft near Johannesburg.
The first group to emerge were being medically checked and then handed over to the police for questioning. There were no immediate reports of deaths or injuries.
A police patrol in the semi-rural Johannesburg suburb of Benoni, where gold has been mined for decades, had been alerted by shouts from the trapped miners.
A crane was used to shift a large concrete slab that was obstructing the shaft belonging to the Chinese-owned bullion producer Gold One, which has prospecting rights to the mine but is not currently working it.
Rescue service spokesman Werner Vermaak told Reuters that some of the miners still underground were refusing to come up, saying they did not want to be arrested.