Standoff in South Africa ends with 87 miners dead and anger …
7 hours ago · STILFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold mine in South Africa has risen to at least 87, police said Thursday. Authorities faced growing anger and a possible investigation over their initial refusal to help the miners and instead “smoke them out” by cutting off their food supplies.
Standoff in South Africa ends with 87 miners dead and anger …
8 hours ago · STILFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold mine in South Africa has risen to at least ...
South African police end mine rescue operation with at least 78 …
1 day ago · STILFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — South African police ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine on Wednesday and said they believe they have brought out all the survivors and retrieved all the bodies after hundreds of miners were trapped for months in one of the country’s deepest mines while working illegally.. At least 78 miners were confirmed dead, police said, and 246 survivors ...
‘I can’t lose hope’: families await news of trapped miners in South Africa
18 hours ago · A miner is carried on a stretcher by rescue workers after he was rescued from Stilfontein mine. Photograph: Themba Hadebe/AP. South African authorities have repeatedly claimed the miners are free ...
South Africa criticized for ‘horrific’ mining crackdown after 78 …
1 day ago · South Africa’s government is facing criticism for its clampdown on illegal mining that cut off food and water to hundreds of miners underground, after at least 78 bodies were pulled from a shaft ...
No more miners trapped at Stilfontein mine in South Africa, …
South Africa relied heavily on miners from countries such as Lesotho and Mozambique before the industry went into decline. Unemployment in South Africa is currently more than 30% and many former ...
South Africa gold mine: Rescuers try to free men trapped in mine …
2 days ago · The South African government has launched a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine in the country’s North West province, where at least 109 men have died, a group representing the miners ...
South African miners trapped underground: What you need to …
Nov 18, 2024 · Hundreds – possibly thousands – of miners remain trapped in an abandoned gold mine in South Africa’s northwestern Stilfontein town, fearful to come out of hiding and face arrest by security...
Hundreds of illegal miners holed up in disused shaft in South Africa ...
Nov 14, 2024 · Several hundred people are believed to remain in an illegal mine in South Africa after the government cut off vital supplies and refused to help them, in a dramatic bid to crack down on the...
Dozens of survivors and dead pulled from abandoned South …
1 day ago · At least 60 bodies and 92 survivors had been pulled from one of South Africa's deepest mines since Monday in a red cagelike device lowered thousands of feet underground, police said. Police are ...