The death toll rose to 41 in an underground coal mine explosion in the northern Bartin province of Turkey that trapped 110 workers, Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said.
Rescuers on Saturday (Oct 15) found the body of the last missing miner at a coal mine in northern Turkey.
The underground coal mine explosion ripped through the mine near the small coal mining town of Amasra on Turkey's Black Sea coast shortly before sunset on Friday. The Minister confirmed that 110 workers were in the mine when the explosion occurred 300 meters below ground on Friday evening in the town of Amasra, Xinhua news agency reported.
Among them, 58 later managed to get out on their own, 11 others were injured and hospitalized, and the status of one remaining miner was unclear, he told reporters on Saturday.
The explosion occurred at 6:15 p.m. local time at the Amasra Hard Coal Enterprise, Bartin province said in a statement on Friday.
In 2014, as many as 301 people died in Turkey’s worst mine disaster in a fire inside a coal mine in Soma town of western Manisa province.
Rescuers on Saturday (Oct 15) found the body of the last missing miner at a coal mine in northern Turkey.
The underground coal mine explosion ripped through the mine near the small coal mining town of Amasra on Turkey's Black Sea coast shortly before sunset on Friday. The Minister confirmed that 110 workers were in the mine when the explosion occurred 300 meters below ground on Friday evening in the town of Amasra, Xinhua news agency reported.
Among them, 58 later managed to get out on their own, 11 others were injured and hospitalized, and the status of one remaining miner was unclear, he told reporters on Saturday.
The explosion occurred at 6:15 p.m. local time at the Amasra Hard Coal Enterprise, Bartin province said in a statement on Friday.
In 2014, as many as 301 people died in Turkey’s worst mine disaster in a fire inside a coal mine in Soma town of western Manisa province.
