Hundreds of Miners Were Trapped for Months---Until an Extraordinary Two-Man Rescue Mission

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

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Trapped underground with decaying bodies, miners faced a dark reality

Mzwandile Mkwayi volunteered to go down into the shaft to help save the lives of scores of South African miners.
BBC News - 3h
Why South Africa wants to jail miners trapped underground for months

More than 70 people have reportedly died while trapped in a mine after a monthlong standoff with the South African government over illegal mining. CBS News' Chris Livesay has more.
CBS News - 8h
No more miners trapped underground in South Africa, volunteers say

At least 78 bodies and more than 200 survivors have been pulled out of a mine since Monday.
BBC News - 2d
South Africa arrests over 100 illegal miners after underground rescue

Hundreds more still trapped since August in abandoned gold mine with dozens dead
Financial Times - 2d
Rescuers bring out survivors and dead from a South African mine as hundreds remain trapped

Yahoo News - 3d
‘It was extraordinary’: Spanish captain recalls rescue of woman who gave birth in dinghy

Mother and newborn saved from inflatable boat off Canary Islands, on a route on which thousands have died. The call that would lead to one of the most poignant images of the humanitarian ...
The Guardian - Jan. 10
12 coal miners trapped after mine collapses in southwest Pakistan

Officials say a methane gas explosion has caused a mine to collapse in a remote area in restive southwest Pakistan, trapping at least 12 miners
ABC News - Jan. 10
Indian army divers retrieve the body of one of at least 9 miners trapped in a flooded coal mine

Indian army divers have retrieved the body of one of at least nine miners trapped inside a flooded coal mine in India’s northeastern Assam state
ABC News - Jan. 8
At least 9 miners are trapped in a coal mine in India's northeastern Assam state

At least nine workers are trapped inside a coal mine in India’s northeastern Assam state and authorities have summoned the army to help in the rescue operation
ABC News - Jan. 7

Hundreds of Miners Were Trapped for Months---Until an Extraordinary Two-Man Rescue Mission

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Trapped underground with decaying bodies, miners faced a dark reality

Why South Africa wants to jail miners trapped underground for months

No more miners trapped underground in South Africa, volunteers say

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12 coal miners trapped after mine collapses in southwest Pakistan

Indian army divers retrieve the body of one of at least 9 miners trapped in a flooded coal mine

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