A body was brought out of an abandoned South African gold mine as police tried to evict hundreds of illegal miners hiding out in the workings...

An estimated 4,000 illegal gold miners are hiding underground in South Africa after the government cut off food and water in an effort to "smoke them out" and arrest them. The miners have been in a mineshaft in Stilfontein, in the North West province, for about a month.

The miners in Stilfontein are believed to be suffering from a lack of food, water and other necessities after police closed off the entrances used to transport their supplies underground. Police have spent weeks working to clear the abandoned gold mine ...

South Africa’s government says it will not help an estimated 4,000 illegal miners inside a closed mine in the country’s North West province as part of an official policy against illegal mining.

The South African government will not assist illegal miners trapped in a closed mine, denying them basic supplies as part of a crackdown on illegal mining.

South Africa’s government says it will not help about 4,000 illegal miners inside a closed mine in the country’s North West province as part of an official policy against illegal mining.

South African police and ambulances were at the site Thursday of an old gold mine shaft where around 4,000 illegal miners were claimed to be underground, facing arrest if they surface.

Officials are hoping the strategy will force the workers out of the mineshaft and to the surface, where they will be arrested.

A body was brought out Thursday of an abandoned gold mine shaft in South Africa where hundreds of illegal miners were believed to be underground, facing arrest if they surface, police said. Thousands of illegal miners,