Seven miners have died and one remains under the rubble after part of a coal mine in Turkey's southeastern Sirnak province, bordering Iraq and Syria, collapsed on Tuesday.
Eight miners were initially under the rubble, but rescue teams were able to bring seven of them to the surface. However, they all died during hospitalization, and the search engines tried to get to one other worker who was still trapped inside.
The collapse of the mine sparked sad memories when, in 2014, the country was shocked by the deaths of 301 miners who were killed in a fire inside a coal mine in Soma, Turkey. Prior to that, a gas explosion occurred in 1992 that killed 263 workers near the Black Sea port of Zonguldak.
Following the Soma accident, the Turkish government introduced a new action plan to improve safety in the country's mines, but this did not provide adequate safety.
Seven people die after coal mine collapse in Turkey
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Azovpromstal® 18 October 2017 г. 11:42 |
