JOHANNESBURG - Over 200 workers were feared trapped Sunday inside an illegal gold mine in South Africa, emergency rescuers said.

"We have got communication with about 30 trapped miners. They have told us that underneath them there's 200 others," Werner Vermaak spokesman of private emergency operators ER24 told AFP.

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