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 ...

Police have rubbished claims that officers detonated explosives at Stilfontein’s Shaft 10 during a rescue operation.

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

National Police Spokesperson Athlenda Mathe reaffirmed that 246 living illegal miners and 78 bodies had been retrieved from the mine since the rescue operation began Monday. A total of 1,907 ...

The number of people arrested is unclear. According to police spokesperson Brigadier Athlenda Mathe, they were arrested from Monday to Wednesday. "Various allegations ... were [made] by some illegal ...

Police spokeswoman Brigadier Athlenda Mathe confirmed this on Wednesday as officials entered day four of the rescue operation. According to Mathe, two volunteers assisting in the operation have ...

National police spokesperson Athlenda Mathe said 78 bodies were retrieved in a court-ordered rescue operation, with 246 survivors also pulled out from deep underground since the operation began on ...

Only two of the 78 retrieved bodies have been identified so far because many of the illegal miners were undocumented and some of the bodies had decomposed, police spokesperson Athlenda Mathe said.