STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) -South African rescuers ended their attempts on Thursday to find anyone left in an ...

South African police lowered a camera down more than a mile (1.5 km) underground into an illegal gold mine on Thursday to ...

By Siyabonga Sishi and Nellie PeytonSTILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) - South African rescuers were making final efforts ...

The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve ...

The clampdown on illegal mining cut off food and water to hundreds of miners underground. At least 78 bodies were pulled from ...

No more illegal miners are believed to be trapped underground at a gold mine in South Africa, volunteers working with rescue ...

By Nellie Peyton and Bhargav Acharya STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) -At least 78 dead bodies have been pulled from an ...

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 ...

More than 240 survivors have been brought to the surface, many severely emaciated after being trapped since November.

A deadly siege on an illegal gold mine near Stilfontein, South Africa, has resulted in at least 78 miner deaths, with ...