Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...

Hundreds are still trapped at the Stilfontein gold mine, a rights group said. Authorities tried to flush out the miners by ...

South African police ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine on Wednesday and said they believe they have brought ...

Rescue teams in South Africa have stepped up efforts to pull out survivors and the corpses of illegal miners trapped ...

The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve ...

South African authorities have come under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have ...

South African rescuers have so far pulled 78 bodies and rescued 166 people from the Stilfontein gold mine over three days of ...

A total of 78 bodies and 166 survivors - some of them emaciated and disorientated - have been hauled out so far in a ...

Arguing that the miners had entered the mine without permission, authorities reportedly cracked down by cutting off their ...

A rescue operation is underway at an abandoned South African gold mine where illegal miners were trapped. Initially, over 78 ...

The authorities had at one point limited the miners’ access to food, water and other supplies in a blockade that drew ...

The South African government has launched a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine in the country’s North West province, ...