The volunteers risked their lives to venture thousands of feet underground and retrieve their neighbors. What they found was ...
The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold mine ...
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 ...
Trapped up to 2.5 kilometres underground, the miners faced horrific conditions, with some resorting to cannibalism to survive ...
Why did 87 people die in South Africa? - The tragedy at the abandoned gold mine near Stilfontein began to unfold in August ...
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is facing calls to order a national inquiry into a police operation that was meant to ...
More than 240 survivors have been brought to the surface, many severely emaciated after being trapped since November.
The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve ...
Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...
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