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

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

By Nellie Peyton and Xolani Nhlapo STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) -South African rescuers ended their attempts on ...

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

A deadly siege on an illegal gold mine near Stilfontein, South Africa, has resulted in at least 78 miner deaths, with ...

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 ...

South African police said Wednesday they have ended a rescue operation and believe they have brought out all the survivors ...

Rescuers have sent a cage-like structure into one of South Africa’s deepest gold mines to bring out survivors among hundreds ...

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

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