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

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South African police say they have ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine where scores of illegal miners were trapped and believe they rescued all the survivors and retrieved all the bodie ...

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

South African police announce sudden end of mine rescue operation, say they believe all survivors and bodies retrieved.

A deadly crackdown at an illegal gold mine in South Africa's Stilfontein has claimed at least 78 lives, with hundreds more feared trapped. The operation, criticized by unions for negligence, has ...

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 ...

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