Five dead as mine collapses collapse in west Turkey
- A coal mine collapsed in Soma, western Turkey, on Thursday, killing five workers and trapping seven.
- Two workers survived; rescuers recovered the bodies of the other three trapped workers on Friday. One survivor remained hospitalized, while the other was discharged.
- Turkish prosecutors ordered nine people detained, including mining company officials, amid an investigation into the accident.
- The cause of the collapse remained unclear as authorities and experts investigated.
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Five people died as a result of the collapse of a coal mine in western Turkey, as a result of construction work, found AFP on Friday from local and trade union sources, after the discovery of three new bodies.
Five die after mine collapse in Turkey
Turkish rescuers on Friday recovered the bodies of three miners trapped in a mine collapse in western Turkey, raising the death toll to five, local authorities said. In a separate accident, another miner died on Friday during the collapse of an unlicensed mine in Kilimli, a town on Turkey’s northwestern Black Sea coast, media reports Read More: https://punchng.com/five-die-after-mine-collapse-in-turkey/
The accident occurred on Thursday at lunchtime in a mine in the province of Manisa, about 100 kilometres from the seaside resort of Izmir.
A collapse in a coal mine in western Turkey cost the lives of five miners, reviving the memory of the disaster of 2014 Five people died in the collapse of a
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