Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground ...
Allegations that the miners resorted to eating human flesh in order to survive were also made by other miners who were ...
The volunteers risked their lives to venture thousands of feet underground and retrieve their neighbors. What they found was ...
South African rescue workers retrieved 78 bodies from a disused gold mine in Stilfontein where hundreds of illegal extractors have been involved in a months-long standoff with the authorities. Civil ...
Trapped up to 2.5 kilometres underground, the miners faced horrific conditions, with some resorting to cannibalism to survive ...
Why did 87 people die in South Africa? - The tragedy at the abandoned gold mine near Stilfontein began to unfold in August ...
South African authorities have for years struggled to stop groups of miners from going into some of the gold-rich country's 6 ...
More than 240 survivors have been brought to the surface, many severely emaciated after being trapped since November.