"Bring us some oxygen," were the final words heard when contact was lost. The bodies of four miners in the Tau Lekoa Mine in northeastern South Africa were recovered after they were trapped by fallen boulders.
The bodies of four gold miners who had been trapped deep underground in a South African mine were recovered Sunday, a mine workers' union said.
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