The South African Police Service confirmed the deaths of at least 78 people on Wednesday following the end of a rescue operation at an abandoned mine where miners, cut off from food and water, had ...
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 ...
SouthAfrica — Rescuers were sending a cage-like structure into one of SouthAfrica’s deepest mines on Tuesday in an attempt to bring out survivors among hundreds of illegal miners trapped ...
Rescuers are sending a cage-like structure into one of SouthAfrica’s deepest mines. It comes after more than 100 are believed to have died of starvation or dehydration. It is in an attempt to ...
Rescuers have hoisted illegal miners and several bodies from an abandoned gold mine in SouthAfrica, where reports emerge that hundreds may be trapped and at least 100 may have already died.