By Nellie Peyton and Xolani Nhlapo STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) -South African rescuers ended their attempts on ...

It will be a "mammoth task" to identify the bodies brought up from a disused mineshaft in South Africa this week, a police ...

The miners are suspected to have died of starvation and dehydration, although no causes of death have been released.

South African police lowered a camera down more than a mile (1.5 km) underground into an illegal gold mine on Thursday to ...

The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve ...

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

Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...

Police ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine on Wednesday and said they believe they have brought out all the ...

No more illegal miners are believed to be trapped underground at a gold mine in South Africa, volunteers working with rescue ...

Authorities faced growing anger and a possible investigation over their initial refusal to help the miners and instead “smoke ...