South African authorities have come under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have been trapped deep in an abandoned gold mine for months.
Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...
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In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close ...
More than 240 survivors have been brought to the surface, many severely emaciated after being trapped since November.
Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...
Why did 87 people die in South Africa? - The tragedy at the abandoned gold mine near Stilfontein began to unfold in August ...
The mine has been the scene of a tense standoff between police and miners since authorities launched an operation to force ...
Tom hasn't heard from her brother, Ayanda, since July 2024, when he first told her he'd be going down into the abandoned Buffelsfontein Gold Mine in Stilfontein to mine illegally. At first ...
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 all the bodies after hundreds of ...
South African Police End Mine Rescue Operation With at Least 78 Dead and 246 Survivors STILFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — South African police ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine on ...