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

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

Rescuers racing to clear a disused South African gold shaft of illegal miners said Thursday a final sweep appeared to show ...

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

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

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

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