Rescue workers were conducting a final sweep at a mine in Stilfontein in the North West province on Thursday to determine ...
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 ...
The Stilfontein Crisis Committee said even though all surviving miners have been rescued, the shaft is littered with body ...
STILFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working ...
Journalists are seen during a stake-out at an abandoned gold mine, where miners were rescued from below ground, in ...
South African police said Wednesday they have ended a rescue operation and believe they have brought out all the survivors ...
Rescuers are sending a cage-like structure into one of South Africa’s deepest mines in an attempt to bring out survivors ...
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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