but it was evident that people were standing around and they were in need of help to come up to the surface,” said Mannas Fourie, CEO of Mine Rescue Services South Africa, the private company ...

South African rescue workers believe no one is underground ... in recent days brought dozens of miners to the surface from a stalled gold mine. Dozens of bodies were also recovered.

Mine rescue experts arrived on site on Monday to begin technical work to bring the illegal miners back to the surface.

We could not determine the number of people that are standing there, but it was evident that people were standing around and they were in need of help to come up to the surface,” said Mannas Fourie, ...

As the cage reached a depth of 1,280 meters, Charles and Mkwayi were confronted with scenes that may haunt them forever. Hundreds of emaciated miners, some near death, lay together with dozens of dead ...

Trapped nearly a mile beneath the earth after police blocked their food and water, one recalled how some of his colleagues “resorted to cannibalism”. “They cut parts of legs, arms, and ribs for ...

CARLETONVILLE, South Africa (AP) — A specialized mine rescue camera was lowered late ... Rescuers brought the camera back to the surface and then sent it back underground, this time with a ...

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 ...

Mathe said the Mine Rescue Service, which has been responsible ... Since then, at least 1,576 illegal miners have come to the surface and been arrested, with the majority of them being foreign ...