Rescuers worked on Saturday to free more than a dozen miners still thought to be trapped underground at a coal pit in northern Turkey, where a methane blast a day earlier killed at least 28 people.
AMASRA, Turkey —
Soylu said earlier some 110 people had been working underground when one of Turkey’s deadliest industrial accidents in years struck Friday at sunset. Some of the miners were able to leave the mine on their own after the blast, while others were rescued. Television footage showed paramedics giving oxygen to the miners who had climbed out, then rushing them to the nearest hospitals.
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