The Associated Press on MSN12d
Standoff in South Africa ends with 87 miners dead and anger over police’s ‘smoke them out’ tacticsPolice say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground ...
More than 240 survivors have been brought to the surface, many severely emaciated after being trapped since November.
Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...
Thousands of illegal miners working at the old Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, near Johannesburg, surrendered but around 400 remained - with only 324 of them making it out alive ...
Athlenda Mathe, national spokesperson for the South African police, defended the operation. "Our mandate was to combat criminality and that is exactly what we've been doing," Mathe said at the ...
CNN on MSN13d
South Africa criticized for ‘horrific’ mining crackdown after 78 bodies pulled from undergroundPolice spokesperson Athlenda Mathe told reporters in November that vital supplies to those underground had been halted in a ...
9don MSN
A suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about a week after resurfacing ...
Rescuers racing to clear a disused South African gold shaft of illegal miners said Thursday a final sweep appeared to show ...
STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) - South African rescuers were making final efforts on Thursday to ascertain whether ...
At least 78 dead bodies have been pulled from an illegal gold mine in South Africa where police cut off food and water ...
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