Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...

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

Reportedly, the authorities adopted a hardline approach by cutting off the food and water supply of the illegal miners to ...

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

Rescue workers retrieved at least 78 bodies from an illegal gold mine in South Africa, where police cut off food and water ...

At least 78 were dead when 324 miners were taken out of the shaft following months of ordeal as stand-ff between miners the ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about a ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — South African police ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine on Wednesday and said they believe they have brought out all the survivors and retrieved ...

A miner is transported on a stretcher by rescue workers after he was rescued from below ground in an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein, South Africa, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Themba ...

South African police are searching for 'Tiger,' a gang leader involved in an illegal gold mine where 78 bodies were found.