10 Injured as Protesting Miners Clash With South African Police

Ten people were hospitalized after police and protesting miners clashed, in South Africa.

Police were dispatched to protect mining equipment from the protesters.

When the police arrived, protesters began throwing rocks and other objects at the officers.

As officers were struck the order was given and the police fired a volley of rubber bullets into the protesters.

Five miners and five officers were sent to the hospital for treatment.

This latest protest has been called by the National Union of Metal Workers of South Africa, which is demanding a twenty percent raise for it's two hundred and thirty thousand members.