Police open fire on striking miners at the Lonmin Platinum Mine near Rustenburg, South Africa, Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012. (Str/AP)
A policeman fires at protesting miners outside a South African mine in Rustenburg, 100 kilometres northwest of Johannesburg, August 16, 2012. (SIPHIWE SIBEKO/REUTERS)
Policemen give instructions to an injured miner, bottom, after the striking miners were shot outside a South African mine in Rustenburg, 100 kilometres northwest of Johannesburg, August 16, 2012. (SIPHIWE SIBEKO/REUTERS)
A miner runs as they were shot at by the police outside a South African mine in Rustenburg, 100 kilometres northwest of Johannesburg, August 16, 2012. (SIPHIWE SIBEKO/REUTERS)
Striking mineworkers level a volley of stones at police trucks as police gunfire. Striking mineworkers throw stones as police open fire on striking miners at the Lonmin Platinum Mine near Rustenburg, South Africa. (Str/AP)