Police said 78 bodies were retrieved in a court-ordered rescue operation, with 246 survivors also pulled out from deep ...

Rights groups say police used starvation as a weapon to force out illegal miners, resulting in close to 80 deaths.

Rescuers racing to clear a disused South African gold shaft of illegal miners said on Thursday a final sweep appeared to show ...

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

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

More than 240 survivors have been brought to the surface, many severely emaciated after being trapped since November.

In a police crackdown at an illegal gold mine in Stilfontein, South Africa, 78 people died and hundreds were rescued. The ...

At least 78 dead bodies have been pulled from an illegal gold mine in South Africa where police cut off food and water ...

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

STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) - South African rescuers were making final efforts on Thursday to ascertain whether ...

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