Police say the death toll in a standoff with miners trapped while working illegally at an abandoned gold mine in South Africa ...

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

Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...

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

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

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

Authorities said that at least 78 bodies were recovered from the Stilfontein mine. A trade union federation has accused the ...

The South African government has launched a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine in the country’s North West province, ...

Police ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine on Wednesday and said they believe they have brought out all the ...

Arguing that the miners had entered the mine without permission, authorities reportedly cracked down by cutting off their ...

South African authorities have ome under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have ...

Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground ...