Trapped SA miners emerge slowly

The miners can only be brought to the surface in small groups

Rescuers are slowly bringing to the surface thousands of workers trapped for hours in a South African gold mine.
More than 3,000 men became trapped 2.2km (1.4 miles) underground when a broken pipe severed power cables to a lift early on Wednesday.
By midday (1000GMT) some 2,000 had been freed from the Elandsrand mine, 80km (50 miles) west of Johannesburg.
Some workers have been underground for 36 hours, since starting night shifts on Tuesday evening.
The miners are being brought out through a small shaft normally used for mining equipment, and only 75 can be hauled clear at a time: no more than 300 in an hour.
Each group of miners was greeted with shouts of joy and whistling, the South African Press Association (Sapa) reports.