The miners are suspected to have died of starvation and dehydration, although no causes of death have been released.

The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold mine ...

It will be a "mammoth task" to identify the bodies brought up from a disused mineshaft in South Africa this week, a police ...

More than 240 survivors have been brought to the surface, many severely emaciated after being trapped since November.

South African police lowered a camera down more than a mile (1.5 km) underground into an illegal gold mine on Thursday to ...

Rescuers retrieving illegal miners from a disused South African gold shaft said on Thursday a final sweep appeared to show ...

The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally underground at an abandoned ...

The clampdown on illegal mining cut off food and water to hundreds of miners underground. At least 78 bodies were pulled from ...

At least 78 dead bodies have been pulled from an illegal gold mine in South Africa where police cut off food and water ...