Police say the death toll in a standoff with miners trapped while working illegally at an abandoned gold mine in South Africa ...

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

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

South African police lowered a camera down more than a mile (1.5 km) underground into an illegal gold mine on Thursday to ...

The South African government has launched a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine in the country’s North West province, ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) -South African rescuers ended their attempts on Thursday to find anyone left in an ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working ...

Arguing that the miners had entered the mine without permission, authorities reportedly cracked down by cutting off their ...

Police ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine on Wednesday and said they believe they have brought out all the ...

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

At least 100 illegal miners have died and more than 400 remain trapped underground after a months-long standoff with police, ...

South African rescuers have so far pulled 78 bodies and rescued 166 people from the Stilfontein gold mine over three days of ...