South African rescue workers retrieved 78 bodies from a disused gold mine in Stilfontein where hundreds of illegal extractors have been involved in a months-long standoff with the authorities. Civil ...
In South Africa, nearly 2,000 illegal miners faced starvation and dire conditions in abandoned mines after a police crackdown. Many miners died due to lack of food and supplies. This illegal mining ...
JOHANNESBURG — At least 100 men who were mining illegally in an abandoned gold mine in SouthAfrica have died after being trapped deep underground for months while police tried to get them out ...
More than 100 people have died after being trapped for months beneath an abandoned mine in SouthAfrica. The men had been illegally mining in an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein, in the ...