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

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Rescue teams in South Africa have stepped up efforts to pull out survivors and the corpses of illegal miners trapped ...

Rescuers pulled more bodies from a disused gold shaft in South Africa where the toll climbed to 78 Wednesday as police try to ...

A total of 78 bodies and 166 survivors - some of them emaciated and disorientated - have been hauled out so far in a ...

The South African government faced growing criticism on Wednesday over the deaths of at least 60 unlicenced miners who were ...

The mine has been the scene of a tense standoff between police and miners since authorities launched an operation to force ...