The volunteers risked their lives to venture thousands of feet underground and retrieve their neighbors. What they found was horrific.

Over 100 illegal miners are thought to have died of starvation or dehydration after being trapped in an abandoned shaft in South Africa for months, according to reports.

A group representing informal miners in South Africa says at least 100 men who were mining illegally in an abandoned gold mine have died after being trapped deep underground for months while police tr

South African authorities have ome under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have been trapped deep in an abandoned gold mine for months

At least 100 illegal miners have died of suspected starvation and dehydration after being trapped underground for months in an abandoned gold mine in North