Media ID: 55332283
Caption:
People react as rescuers carry a miner who sustained injuries after a mine explosion to an ambulance in Soma, a district in Turkey’s western province of Manisa May 14, 2014. (REUTERS/Gokhan Gungor/Depo Photos)
by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 14, 2014 | World
Soma, Turkey, AP—Anger and grief boiled over into a violent protest Wednesday in the western Turkish town of Soma, where officials said at least 245 miners died in a coal mine explosion and fire. Nearly 450 other miners were rescued, the mining company said, but the...
Media ID: 55332258
Caption:
An injured miner is carried to an ambulance after being rescued from a coal mine he was trapped in, in Soma, a district in Turkey’s western province of Manisa, early May 14, 2014. (Reuters/Emre Tazegul)
by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 14, 2014 | World
Soma, Reuters—Rescuers pulled more dead and injured from a coal mine in western Turkey on Wednesday more than 19 hours after an explosion, bringing the death toll to 205 in what could become the nation’s worst ever mining disaster. Hundreds more were still...
