JOHANNESBURG, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- A total of 78 bodies and 216 survivors have been brought to the surface over three days of rescue operations at the abandoned Stilfontein gold mine in the North West ...
With the sheer numbers of illegal miners turning up dead, a small town like Klerksdorp doesn't appear to have capacity to ...
The clampdown on illegal mining cut off food and water to hundreds of miners underground. At least 78 bodies were pulled from ...
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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 ...
STILFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from ...
Rescuers pulled more bodies from a disused gold shaft in South Africa where the toll climbed to 78 Wednesday as police try to ...
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 ...
A devastating state crackdown in South Africa has resulted in the deaths of at least 78 illegal miners in a Stilfontein gold ...