<span style="color: #222222;">In Zimbabwe, at least 60 illegal gold miners were feared dead after water flooded two disused shafts in a mining town southwest of Harare today.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Local Government Minister July Moyo said between 60-70 miners were in the two shafts when they were flooded on Tuesday.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">He said President Emmerson Mnangagwa, had declared a state of disaster.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Moyo said "frantic efforts were being made to pump out water from the flooded shafts before retrieval of the victims".</span>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><br />''</p>