South African police lowered a camera down more than 1.5 km underground into an illegal gold mine on Thursday to ascertain if any survivors or corpses were still there after a months-long siege by ...

A total of 246 survivors and 78 bodies have been brought to the ground over three days of rescue operation at an abandoned ...

The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally underground at an abandoned ...

South African police lowered a camera down more than a mile (1.5 km) underground into an illegal gold mine on Thursday to ...

Journalists are seen during a stake-out at an abandoned gold mine, where miners were rescued from below ground, in ...

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

Official communiqués have reduced the Stilfontein dead and emaciated to children of a lesser God, as if the State’s ...

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

South African police have ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine where hundreds of illegal miners were trapped ...

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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 ...