Why Did 87 Miners Die Trapped Underground in South Africa as Police Tried to Force Their Surrender?
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is facing calls to order a national inquiry into a police operation that was meant to combat illegal mining but ended up leaving 87 miners to die underground as
A rescue team in South Africa has finished a recovery operation to find more than 200 miners trapped in an abandoned gold ...
It will be a "mammoth task" to identify the bodies brought up from a disused mineshaft in South Africa this week, a police ...
The mineral resources department said “the decision to deploy rescue services was made independently” and not mandated by a court. South Africa harbors up to 100,000 artisanal miners ...
South Africa's department of mineral resources told the BBC the rescue operation on Monday involved lowering a cage into the mine that is designed to hold six or seven people. It said the cage ...
South African rescue workers retrieved 78 bodies from a disused gold mine in Stilfontein where hundreds of illegal extractors have been involved in a months-long standoff with the authorities. Civil ...
More than 240 survivors have been brought to the surface, many severely emaciated after being trapped since November.
A total of 78 bodies and 166 survivors - some of them emaciated and disorientated - have been hauled out so far in a ...
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