“When we got to the level, we could immediately see that there are some people standing ... between police and the miners who were trapped while working illegally in the abandoned Buffelsfontein Gold ...

A rescue mission is underway for hundreds of illegal miners thought to have been trapped for months in an abandoned shaft in South Africa, according to reports. More than 100 people are believed ...

I found that they were also eating cockroaches.” These people trapped in the mine entered the mines illegally. In order to evacuate these people, the police had stopped the supply of food in August.

The family-owned business has operated tours at the mine for more than 50 years, with only one previous safety incident in which people were trapped in the elevator in the 1980s, Mikesell said.

head of the Mining Affected Communities United in Action (MACUA), had earlier estimated that 500 people were trapped underground. Mbangula told CNN Tuesday that the men had possibly died from ...

Rescuers have hoisted illegal miners and several bodies from an abandoned gold mine in South Africa, where reports emerge that hundreds may be trapped ... brought up seven people,” Mzukisi ...

JOHANNESBURG — At least 100 men who were mining illegally in an abandoned gold mine in South Africa have died of suspected starvation and dehydration after being trapped deep underground for ...

At least 100 people who were mining illegally in an abandoned gold mine in South Africa have died after being trapped deep underground for months while police tried to get them out, a group ...

At least 100 people who were mining illegally in an abandoned gold mine in South Africa have died after being trapped deep underground for months while police tried to get them out, a group ...

In neighboring India’s northeastern Assam state, hopes are fading as the search resumed for a fifth day on Friday for several people trapped in a flooded coal mine. Advertising At least nine ...

At an open-cast mine, Abdullahi Ibrahim Danjija carefully chisels away at a hunk of whitish rock before stuffing a sack with ...