South African police lower cage into mine to check if anyone left after 78 died
South African police lowered a camera down more than a mile (1.5 km) underground into an illegal gold mine on Thursday to ascertain if any survivors or corpses were still there after a months-long siege by authorities in which at least 78 miners died.
Video shows trapped miners underground in South African gold mine
Hundreds of illegal miners are trapped underground and more than 100 are believed to have died in one of South Africa's deepest gold mines. Videos taken by one of the miners showed bodies wrapped in plastic and emaciated miners calling for help.
At least 78 people have died after authorities imposed a blockade on an illegal gold mine here, part of a monthslong standoff ...
Arguing that the miners had entered the mine without permission, authorities reportedly cracked down by cutting off their ...
No more illegal miners are believed to be trapped underground at a gold mine in South Africa, volunteers working with rescue ...
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South African authorities have pulled at least 60 bodies from the shaft of a closed gold mine more ...
A rescue operation is underway at an abandoned South African gold mine where illegal miners were trapped. Initially, over 78 ...
At least 100 illegal miners have died and more than 400 remain trapped underground after a months-long standoff with police, ...
For the 26th year in a row, a South African gold coin worth thousands was dropped in a Fort Collins red kettle over the ...
A total of 78 bodies and 166 survivors - some of them emaciated and disorientated - have been hauled out so far in a ...
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