Extraction continues in Turkey. Fifteen people were still stranded on Saturday morning in a coal mine, more than sixteen hours after a deadly firedamp strike, Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu said on the spot.
“We estimate that 15 of our miners are (stuck) downstairs and we are trying to rescue them,” said the minister, following the explosion that occurred on Friday at 6:15 p.m. local time in northwestern Turkey and which caused 28 dead, according to the latest official report.
Erdogan will go there
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is expected at the site during the day. “Our wish is that the loss of human life is not higher and that our miners can be saved,” he wished in a tweet published Friday evening.
Afad, Turkey’s state-run disaster management body, initially tweeted that a faulty transformer was the cause of the blast, before recanting and explaining that methane had ignited for “unknown reasons”.
Source: 20minutes
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