Rescuers pulled more bodies from a disused gold shaft in South Africa where the toll climbed to 78 Wednesday as police try to ...

Police Minister Senzo Mchunu has contradicted Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni's previous statement that the ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from ...

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

Rescue workers; motor vehicles park near a rescue operation for miners trapped below ground in an abandoned gold mine in ...

A devastating state crackdown in South Africa has resulted in the deaths of at least 78 illegal miners in a Stilfontein gold ...

At least 78 illegal miners have been pulled out dead from a South African mine where police blocked food and water supplies ...

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

The South African government faces criticism over the deaths of at least 60 unlicenced miners trapped during a police siege ...

South African rescuers have so far pulled 78 bodies and rescued 166 people from the Stilfontein gold mine over three days of ...