Rescue workers find the bodies of 28 coal miners
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yıldız announced that rescue kurtarma workers found 28 bodies inside a coal kömür mine maden hit by a methane gas explosion parlama on Monday.
Two other miners are still missing eksik at 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 told reporters muhabir.
He said all of the trapped kapana kısılmış miners had died from suffocation boğulma. Eight miners were rescued on Monday after the explosion, which caused a cave in çökmek at the mine.
Families have been waiting at the mine since Monday for the announcement duyuru. 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 work hampered engellemek by debris enkaz, rocks and cave-ins.
Authorities are investigating if safety rules were violated ihlal etmek— 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 a collapse çökme set 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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