South African authorities have released some of the miners previously charged with murdering their colleagues shot dead by police.<br /><br />The charges, brought under an apartheid-era law, were dropped yesterday following a national outcry.<br /><br />Some 270 miners were originally detained more than two weeks ago during a wildcat strike at Lonmin's Marikana platinum mine.<br /><br />...<br />http://www.euronews.net/
