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 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 ...
South African police: 118 illegal miners extracted from Stilfontein mine, 36 of those dead
One hundred and eighteen illegal miners have been extracted from the Stilfontein mine in South Africa on Monday and Tuesday ...
South Africa: Survivors, corpses pulled from gold mine
Hundreds more people could be underground following a monthslong effort to force them out of the mine.Months after efforts ...
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Dozens of survivors and dead pulled from abandoned South African mine
The mine has been the scene of a tense standoff between police and miners since authorities launched an operation to force ...
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Crackdown at Stilfontein: The War on Illegal Mining in South Africa
In South Africa, authorities have retrieved at least 60 bodies from the Stilfontein gold mine following a siege aimed at ...
Rescuers try to free men trapped in South African gold mine with scores reported dead
The South African government has launched a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine in the country’s North West province, ...
‘We are not even dealing with South Africans’: Deputy Police Minister Polly Boshielo says Stilfontein sets wrong precedent
On Wednesday, IOL also reported that South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) has castigated government for the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Number of bodies recovered from illegal mine in South Africa rises to 60
This brought the death toll to 60 as nine bodies were recovered on the first day of rescue operations on Monday at the old Buffelsfontein Gold Mine in Stilfontein, North West Province. On the same day ...