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    BBC Breaking News‏Verified account @BBCBreaking 16 Aug 2012

    Eye-witnesses count seven bodies after police in South Africa open fire on striking miners at #Lonmin minehttp://bbc.in/PfLrE6 

    7:45 AM - 16 Aug 2012
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    28 replies 412 retweets 17 likes
      1. Simone Van Willingh‏ @LilMiss_Sim 17 Aug 2012
        Replying to @BBCBreaking

        @BBCBreaking SA blood bath, have we not learnt anything from the Apartheid

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      1. Neil Woolley‏ @Woolsta82 16 Aug 2012
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        @BBCBreaking

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      1. sarfraz nadat‏ @saffy_0505 16 Aug 2012
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        @BBCBreaking wow 7 people made the news in uk and 30,000 burnt and slaughtered & 90,000 displaced in burma hasnt yet.

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      1. Jose Pedro Naisser‏ @globalecologist 16 Aug 2012
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        @BBCBreaking ONE GLOBAL OLYMPIAD IN FAVOR TO EARTH PLANET. http://bit.ly/OBbC9r  , JOIN US NOW.

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      1. Colin Tourettes‏ @colin_tourettes 16 Aug 2012
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        @BBCBreaking fuck me - now that'd really get #BobCrow going...! #Stikers #Fucked

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      1. Nana Yaw‏ @alawapower 16 Aug 2012
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        oh my God! is it now a sin to fight for what is due you?@BBCBreaking

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      1. YNWA is not just a song‏ @wizardmgs 16 Aug 2012
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        @BBCBreaking @Joey7Barton ...cont the strikers killed 10 people in an unauthorised strike yesterday.

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      1. YNWA is not just a song‏ @wizardmgs 16 Aug 2012
        Replying to @BBCBreaking

        @BBCBreaking @Joey7Barton slight artistic license there #BBC. It was the strikers who opened fire on the police...cont

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      2. Yves Muya‏ @YvesMuya 16 Aug 2012
        Replying to @BBCBreaking

        @BBCBreaking @BBCWorld this has happen before in #SouthAfrica

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      3. David Ewart‏ @DavidEwart4 17 Aug 2012
        Replying to @YvesMuya

        @YvesMuya @BBCBreaking @BBCWorld - so who are these miners and what do they want?

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      1. RolloTomassi‏ @fmg65 16 Aug 2012
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        @BBCBreaking thot SA had moved on and everything was rosy in the garden since fall of apartheid regime? ;)

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      1. Rich‏ @artasker76 16 Aug 2012
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        @BBCBreaking any chance of mentioning that the police fired after being fired upon?

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      1. Thobile‏ @Tobslove 16 Aug 2012
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        @BBCBreaking all those SA police who killed this innocent people they must fire them!! This people were not carrying any weapons!!

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      1. Alhassan Ben Abdalla‏ @hmb46 16 Aug 2012
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        @BBCBreaking all violent situations that are happening all over the world are planned by you british and american masons... Damn you all!!!

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