Rescuers seek last bodies in South Africa mine where 78 died in police siege
By Siyabonga Sishi and Nellie Peyton STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) - South African rescuers were making final efforts ...
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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 ...
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 in an abandoned gold mine ...
60 bodies pulled from illegal mine in South Africa; many more trapped
Hundreds are still trapped at the Stilfontein gold mine, a rights group said. Authorities tried to flush out the miners by ...
South Africa criticized for ‘horrific’ mining crackdown after 78 bodies pulled from underground
The clampdown on illegal mining cut off food and water to hundreds of miners underground. At least 78 bodies were pulled from ...
Dozens of Dead Pulled From Illegal South African Gold Mine After Standoff With Authorities
The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve ...
At least 78 dead at abandoned South Africa gold mine that was scene of a standoff
Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...
Why hundreds of miners are still trapped and feared starving in an abandoned South Africa mine
South African authorities have come under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have ...
Dozens of Bodies Recovered From Illegal Mine in South Africa
The authorities had at one point limited the miners’ access to food, water and other supplies in a blockade that drew ...
South Africa pulls 36 corpses from illegal mine, arrests 82 survivors
South African rescuers have pulled out 36 dead bodies and 82 survivors from a gold mine deep underground in two days of ...
At least 100 illegal miners have died while trapped in a South African mine for months, group says
A group representing informal miners in South Africa says at least 100 men who were mining illegally in an abandoned gold ...