January 15, 2025 1:23 PM

Sixty bodies retrieved from closed South African gold mine

South African authorities have pulled at least 60 bodies from the shaft of a closed gold mine more than 2 km (1.2 miles) underground where an unknown number of men are still feared trapped, following a siege in a crackdown on illegal mining. The siege, which began in August at the mine in the town of Stilfontein, about 150 km (90 miles) from Johannesburg, cut off food and water supplies for months in an attempt to force the miners to the surface so that they could be arrested. On Monday, autho...