South Africa mine rescue ends, anger rises over 78 deaths in police siege
South African rescuers ended their attempts on Thursday to find anyone left in an illegal gold mine where at least 78 people ...
Hundreds of Miners Were Trapped for Months —Until an Extraordinary Two-Man Rescue Mission
The volunteers risked their lives to venture thousands of feet underground and retrieve their neighbors. What they found was ...
Standoff in South Africa ends with 87 miners dead and anger over police’s ‘smoke them out’ tactics
Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground ...
Why did 87 miners die trapped underground in South Africa as police tried to force their surrender?
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is facing calls to order a national inquiry into a police operation that was meant to ...
South Africa ends mine rescue operation with at least 78 dead and 246 survivors
The closed Buffelsfontein Gold Mine was the scene of a standoff in November when police tried to force the miners out by ...
Rescuers pull survivors and bodies from abandoned South Africa gold mine
A rescue team in South Africa has finished a recovery operation to find more than 200 miners trapped in an abandoned gold ...
Death toll rises to 87 as standoff between police and miners ends in South Africa
The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally underground at an abandoned ...
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South African police end mine rescue operation with at least 78 dead and 246 survivors
STILFONTEIN, South Africa — South African police ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine on Wednesday and said they believe they have brought out all the survivors and retrieved all ...
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South Africa accused of 'horrific' crackdown as 78 corpses pulled from illegal mine
He has said illegal mining cost South Africa over $3 billion last year ... and a separate ruling last week ordered the state to launch the rescue. None of the rescued survivors were hospitalised ...