Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground ...
STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) -South African rescuers ended their attempts on Thursday to find anyone left in an ...
By Siyabonga Sishi and Nellie PeytonSTILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) - South African rescuers were making final efforts ...
Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground ...
Authorities now believe that nearly 2,000 miners were working illegally in the mine near the town of Stilfontein, southwest of Johannesburg, since August last year.
Police said 78 bodies were retrieved in a court-ordered rescue operation, with 246 survivors also pulled out from deep ...
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South Africa accused of ‘horrific’ crackdown as 78 bodies pulled from mineRights groups say police used starvation as a weapon to force out illegal miners in Stilfontein, resulting in close to 80 ...
South African police have ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine where hundreds of illegal miners were trapped ...
In a police crackdown at an illegal gold mine in Stilfontein, South Africa, 78 people died and hundreds were rescued. The ...
In South Africa, a government crackdown on an illegal gold mine led to a state siege, causing 78 deaths. Volunteers ...
At least 78 dead bodies have been pulled from an illegal gold mine in South Africa where police cut off food and water ...
While rescue teams worked to retrieve illegal miners trapped in the Buffelsfontein gold mine just outside Stilfontein, anxious relatives watched from the sidelines as miners and corpses were brought ...
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