Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A specialized mine rescue camera was lowered late last year into an almost 2.6-kilometer (1.6-mile) deep ...

Mannas Fourie, CEO of Mines Rescue Services, points out the technology capabilities of the mobile rescue winder that was used to rescue miners, during an interview in Carletonville, South Africa ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. CARLETONVILLE, South Africa (AP) — A specialized mine rescue camera was lowered late last ...

CARLETONVILLE, South Africa (AP) — A specialized mine rescue camera was lowered late last year into an almost 2.6-kilometer (1.6-mile) deep mineshaft in South Africa, where hundreds of illegal ...

‘I can go to trauma counseling or whatever; I will never forget it.’ One of the miners that Mkwayi helped rescue handed him his mining helmet as a gesture of gratitude when they got to the surface.

Rescue efforts at an illegal gold mine in South Africa, where at least 78 people died, concluded on Thursday. Credit: flickr / Daniel Sallai CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Rescue operations at an illegal gold mine ...

South African authorities have declared their rescue of any miners still trapped in an illegal mine in Stilfontein to be over. Following a court order telling the police to rescue the trapped miners, ...

South African police ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine on Wednesday and said they believe they have brought out all the survivors and retrieved all the bodies after hundreds of ...

South African rescuers ended their attempts on Thursday to find anyone left in an illegal gold mine where at least 78 ... Mannas Fourie, the CEO of a rescue company involved in the operation ...

South African police said on Wednesday they have ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine where scores of illegal miners were trapped and believe they rescued all the survivors and retrieved ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa — South African police ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine on Wednesday and said they believe they have brought out all the survivors and retrieved all ...