Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground ...
The volunteers risked their lives to venture thousands of feet underground and retrieve their neighbors. What they found was ...
South African rescue workers retrieved 78 bodies from a disused gold mine in Stilfontein where hundreds of illegal extractors have been involved in a months-long standoff with the authorities. Civil ...
Trapped up to 2.5 kilometres underground, the miners faced horrific conditions, with some resorting to cannibalism to survive ...
Why did 87 people die in South Africa? - The tragedy at the abandoned gold mine near Stilfontein began to unfold in August ...
South Africa’s president is facing calls to order an inquiry into a police operation that was meant to combat illegal mining ...
More than 240 survivors have been brought to the surface, many severely emaciated after being trapped since November.
Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...
Rescuers recovered 51 additional bodies from an abandoned gold mine in South Africa on Tuesday, raising the death toll to 60 ...