South African police have ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine where hundreds of illegal miners were trapped for months and say they believe they have rescued all the survivors and retri ...
Official communiques have reduced the Stilfontein dead and emaciated to children of a lesser God, as if the State’s ...
Rescue teams in South Africa have stepped up efforts to pull out survivors and the corpses of illegal miners trapped ...
Months after South African authorities initially cut off supplies to miners working illegally in an abandoned gold mine, ...
Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...
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 bodies were recovered from an illegal gold mine in South Africa, highlighting a severe crackdown on miners. Authorities, defending the operation, face criticism over alleged negligence and ...
By Nellie Peyton and Bhargav Acharya STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) - At least 78 dead bodies have been pulled from an ...
More than 1,500 illegal miners have been arrested at Stilfontein since August, when authorities first started to remove them ...