28 İşçinin Cansız Bedenine Ulaşıldı
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Rescue Workers Find the Bodies of 28 Coal Miners
05/21/2010 00:00:00
Rescue workers find the bodies of 28 coal miners
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yıldız announced thatrescueworkers found 28 bodies inside acoalminehit by a methane gasexplosionon Monday.
Two other miners are stillmissingat the scene of the explosion more than 500 metres below ground, Yıldız said at the mine at Karadon in Zonguldak province. "Efforts are continuing to try to find the two other workers," the minister toldreporters.
He said all of thetrappedminers had died fromsuffocation. Eight miners were rescued on Monday after the explosion, which caused acave inat the mine.
Families have been waiting at the mine since Monday for theannouncement. Many broke down in tears in front of television cameras after hearing the minister's announcement. The explosion at the Karadon mine near the Black Sea port of Zonguldak buried the miners Monday afternoon and there had been no contact with them since. Some 400 mine rescue workers had been trying to reach the miners since then, with their workhamperedbydebris, rocks and cave-ins.
Authorities are investigating if safety rules wereviolated— a common factor in past mine accidents in Turkey. It was the third mine accident in Turkey in the past sixth months.
Thirteen workers were killed in February when a methane explosion at a mine in northwest Turkey caused a cave-in. In December, 19 workers died in acollapseset off by an explosion.
The worst mining accident happened in 1992 when 263 workers were killed in a gas explosion in a mine in Zonguldak.
28 İşçinin Cansız Bedenine Ulaşıldı - Rescue Workers Find the Bodies of 28 Coal Miners
Rescue workers find the bodies of 28 coal miners
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yıldız announced thatrescueworkers found 28 bodies inside acoalminehit by a methane gasexplosionon Monday.
Two other miners are stillmissingat the scene of the explosion more than 500 metres below ground, Yıldız said at the mine at Karadon in Zonguldak province. "Efforts are continuing to try to find the two other workers," the minister toldreporters.
He said all of thetrappedminers had died fromsuffocation. Eight miners were rescued on Monday after the explosion, which caused acave inat the mine.
Families have been waiting at the mine since Monday for theannouncement. Many broke down in tears in front of television cameras after hearing the minister's announcement. The explosion at the Karadon mine near the Black Sea port of Zonguldak buried the miners Monday afternoon and there had been no contact with them since. Some 400 mine rescue workers had been trying to reach the miners since then, with their workhamperedbydebris, rocks and cave-ins.
Authorities are investigating if safety rules wereviolated— a common factor in past mine accidents in Turkey. It was the third mine accident in Turkey in the past sixth months.
Thirteen workers were killed in February when a methane explosion at a mine in northwest Turkey caused a cave-in. In December, 19 workers died in acollapseset off by an explosion.
The worst mining accident happened in 1992 when 263 workers were killed in a gas explosion in a mine in Zonguldak.
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