JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - At least 13 workers were injured at an Anglo American Platinum mine in South Africa on Monday, some shot with rubber bullets and others hacked with machetes, in the year's first major mine violence after the sector was plagued by deadly strife in 2012.
Police said the bloodshed was provoked by a dispute between the established National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and the growing Association for Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) over access to mine offices.
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