The volunteers risked their lives to venture thousands of feet underground and retrieve their neighbors. What they found was ...
A rescue team in South Africa has finished a recovery operation to find more than 200 miners trapped in an abandoned gold ...
The mineral resources department said “the decision to deploy rescue services was made independently” and not mandated by a court. South Africa harbors up to 100,000 artisanal miners ...
South Africa's department of mineral resources told the BBC the rescue operation on Monday involved lowering a cage into the mine that is designed to hold six or seven people. It said the cage ...
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 ...
At least 78 dead bodies have been pulled from an illegal gold mine in South Africa where police cut off food and water ...
More than 240 survivors have been brought to the surface, many severely emaciated after being trapped since November.