The clampdown on illegal mining cut off food and water to hundreds of miners underground. At least 78 bodies were pulled from ...

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

By Nellie Peyton and Bhargav Acharya STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) -At least 78 dead bodies have been pulled from an ...

Hundreds are still trapped at the Stilfontein gold mine, a rights group said. Authorities tried to flush out the miners by ...

Over 78 miners have died, and more than 160 have been rescued from an abandoned South African gold mine amid a standoff with ...

Rescuers continued retrieving bodies Wednesday from an abandoned South African gold mine with hundreds more still believed to ...

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

A total of 118 illegal miners, including 36 dead, have been extracted from an abandoned gold mine in South Africa. The ...

JOHANNESBURG - South African authorities have pulled at least 60 bodies from the shaft of a closed gold mine more than 2km ...

The recoveries of bodies come months after the miners, who officials say were illegally mining, were first discovered and had ...

Hundreds are still believed to be trapped on Wednesday and the death toll is expected to rise in a disaster that has focused ...

A total of 78 bodies and 166 survivors - some of them emaciated and disorientated - have been hauled out so far in a ...