Police said 78 bodies were retrieved in a court-ordered rescue operation, with 246 survivors also pulled out from deep ...

Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground ...

More than 240 survivors have been brought to the surface, many severely emaciated after being trapped since November.

Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground ...

The Buffelsfontein gold mine in South Africa has become a grim site with dozens of illegal miners dead and more trapped ...

Rescuers recovered 51 additional bodies from an abandoned gold mine in South Africa on Tuesday, raising the death toll to 60 ...

A standoff at an illegal South African gold mine has resulted in at least 87 fatalities, highlighting tensions between police and miners. Authorities face criticism for their tough stance, while a ...

The closed Buffelsfontein Gold Mine was the scene of a standoff in November when police tried to force the miners out by ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South African authorities have come under intense scrutiny for their response after civic ...

Volunteers from the community who are familiar with the mine have been in the cage as it is dropped deep underground.

Hundreds of illegal miners have been trapped in an abandoned shaft at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine in South Africa for months (Denis Farrell/AP) Rescuers were sending a cage-like structure into on ...

Rescuers have sent a cagelike device into one of South Africa’s deepest gold mines to bring out survivors among hundreds of miners working illegally in an abandoned shaft who have been trapped for ...