Upon closer inspection, they realised that it wasn’t a hole but a tunnel running under the road towards a mine. The police were called to the scene, and they, in turn, called the Johannesburg ...

A team of "rat miners" successfully rescued the 41 men who had been stranded in a highway tunnel in the Indian Himalayas for 17 days. Rat-hole mining, once widely used for coal extraction ...

A survivor of a coal mine disaster in India has shared a harrowing account of the moments after the tunnel was suddenly ... working inside a so-called "rat-hole" mine - a narrow hole dug manually ...