South African police lowered a camera down more than 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 ...
South African police lowered a camera down more than a mile (1.5 km) underground into an illegal gold mine on Thursday to ...
The Stilfontein Crisis Committee said even though all surviving miners have been rescued, the shaft is littered with body ...
STILFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working ...
Journalists are seen during a stake-out at an abandoned gold mine, where miners were rescued from below ground, in ...
South African police said Wednesday they have ended a rescue operation and believe they have brought out all the survivors ...
Rescuers are sending a cage-like structure into one of South Africa’s deepest mines in an attempt to bring out survivors ...
A total of 246 survivors were rescued in a court-ordered operation but were immediately arrested for illegal mining.
Hundreds are still trapped at the Stilfontein gold mine, a rights group said. Authorities tried to flush out the miners by ...
South African police have ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine where hundreds of illegal miners were trapped ...
More than 1,500 illegal miners have been arrested at Stilfontein since August, when authorities first started to remove them ...