At least 78 miners were confirmed dead, police said, and 246 survivors had been rescued. The victims were suspected to have ...

The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold mine ...

In a police crackdown at an illegal gold mine in Stilfontein, South Africa, 78 people died and hundreds were rescued. The ...

By Siyabonga Sishi and Nellie Peyton STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) - South African rescuers were making final efforts ...

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

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 ...

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

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

No more illegal miners are believed to be trapped underground at a gold mine in South Africa, volunteers working with rescue ...

South African police have ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine where hundreds of illegal miners were trapped ...

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