Turkey Soma coal mine blast: At least 274 miners confirmed dead, hundreds trapped inside
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The death toll in the accident at a coal mine in Soma, Turkey has reached at least 274, making the disaster the worst in the country's history.
Eighty more miners are injured while hundreds are still trapped deep underground.
The miners have been trapped since Wednesday, following an explosion and fire in a mine shaft between 1 to 2 kilometres deep.
CNN reports that the explosion was caused by an electrical fault inside a transformer and is believed to have caused a fire inside the mine shaft. The BBC says the blast triggered a power outage, which made the lifts unusable, leaving hundreds of miners stranded underground.
Most of the deaths are believed to have been caused by suffocation, and there is little hope for the miners still trapped inside.
To help them officials have turned an outlet pipe into a clean air pipe to allow fresh air to enter in places where there is no fire, CNN reported. But although oxygen is being pumped into the shaft, rescue efforts have been repeatedly suspended due to high levels of carbon monoxide.
Nearly 450 miners have been rescued. As many as 200 are still missing, according to Voice of America.
Turkish newspaper Today's Zaman says that mining accidents are common in Turkey, which is plagued by poor safety conditions. In 1992, in what was considered until now the worst mining disaster, 270 miners were killed near Zonguldak on the Black Sea. The International Labor Organization ranked Turkey the third worst in the world for worker deaths in 2012, according to Voice of America.
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The death toll in the accident at a coal mine in Soma, Turkey has reached at least 274, making the disaster the worst in the country's history.
Eighty more miners are injured while hundreds are still trapped deep underground.
The miners have been trapped since Wednesday, following an explosion and fire in a mine shaft between 1 to 2 kilometres deep.
CNN reports that the explosion was caused by an electrical fault inside a transformer and is believed to have caused a fire inside the mine shaft. The BBC says the blast triggered a power outage, which made the lifts unusable, leaving hundreds of miners stranded underground.
Most of the deaths are believed to have been caused by suffocation, and there is little hope for the miners still trapped inside.
To help them officials have turned an outlet pipe into a clean air pipe to allow fresh air to enter in places where there is no fire, CNN reported. But although oxygen is being pumped into the shaft, rescue efforts have been repeatedly suspended due to high levels of carbon monoxide.
Nearly 450 miners have been rescued. As many as 200 are still missing, according to Voice of America.
Turkish newspaper Today's Zaman says that mining accidents are common in Turkey, which is plagued by poor safety conditions. In 1992, in what was considered until now the worst mining disaster, 270 miners were killed near Zonguldak on the Black Sea. The International Labor Organization ranked Turkey the third worst in the world for worker deaths in 2012, according to Voice of America.
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