The chief executive officer of the Mine Rescue Services team tasked with extracting miners from the belly of an abandoned ...

On day three of the Stilfontein mine rescue operations, a total of 106 illegal miners were retrieved alive and arrested for illegal mining. Death toll since Monday is 78.

At least 78 dead bodies have been pulled from an illegal gold mine in South Africa where police cut off food and water ...

The clampdown on illegal mining cut off food and water to hundreds of miners underground. At least 78 bodies were pulled from ...

A deadly crackdown at an illegal gold mine in South Africa's Stilfontein has claimed at least 78 lives, with hundreds more feared trapped. The operation, criticized by unions for negligence, has ...

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A group representing informal miners in South Africa says at least 100 men who were mining illegally in an abandoned gold ...

Rescuers pulled more bodies from a disused gold shaft in South Africa where the toll climbed to 78 Wednesday as police try to ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from ...

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

At least 78 illegal miners have been pulled out dead from a South African mine where police blocked food and water supplies for months in what trade unions described as a "horrific" state crackdown on ...