Rescuers seek last bodies in South Africa mine where 78 died in police siege
STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) - South African rescuers were making final efforts on Thursday to ascertain whether anyone was left in an illegal gold mine deep underground where at least 78 people died during a police siege, in what a labour union called a state-sponsored massacre.
It will be a "mammoth task" to identify the bodies brought up from a disused mineshaft in South Africa this week, a police ...
Hundreds are still trapped at the Stilfontein gold mine, a rights group said. Authorities tried to flush out the miners by ...
Rescuers have hoisted illegal miners and several bodies from an abandoned gold mine in South Africa, where reports emerge that hundreds may be trapped and at least 100 may have already died.
No more illegal miners are believed to be trapped underground at a gold mine in South Africa, volunteers working with rescue ...
South Africa — Rescuers were sending a cage-like structure into one of South Africa’s deepest mines on Tuesday in an attempt to bring out survivors among hundreds of illegal miners trapped ...
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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