An operation to extract illegal miners in Stilfontein which began on Monday has led to the extraction of 324 people by ...

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South African police say they have ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine where scores of illegal miners were trapped and believe they rescued all the survivors and retrieved all the bodie ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — South African police announce sudden end of mine rescue operation, say they believe all survivors and bodies retrieved.

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

STILFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — South African police announce sudden end of mine rescue operation, say they believe all survivors and bodies retrieved.

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 ...

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

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

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 ...