STORY: South African rescuers ended their attempts on Thursday to find anyone left in an illegal gold mine near the town of ...
By Nellie Peyton and Xolani Nhlapo STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) -South African rescuers ended their attempts on ...
By Siyabonga Sishi and Nellie Peyton STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) - South African rescuers were making final efforts ...
South African police lowered a camera down more than a mile (1.5 km) underground into an illegal gold mine on Thursday to ...
The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve ...
No more illegal miners are believed to be trapped underground at a gold mine in South Africa, volunteers working with rescue ...
Police said 78 bodies were retrieved in a court-ordered rescue operation, with 246 survivors also pulled out from deep ...
South African police have ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine where hundreds of illegal miners were trapped ...
Authorities faced growing anger and a possible investigation over their initial refusal to help the miners and instead “smoke ...