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Hopes fading for trapped Turkish miners

Author
AAP,
Publish Date
Fri, 31 Oct 2014, 2:47PM

Hopes fading for trapped Turkish miners

Author
AAP,
Publish Date
Fri, 31 Oct 2014, 2:47PM

Hopes are fading for 18 miners trapped in a flooded mine in Turkey.

Four hundred rescuers are trying to siphon water that burst into the shaft and broke down its walls in the Southern village of Pamuklu.

The accident is the latest to hit the country's disaster-prone mining industry, after 300 workers were killed in a coal mine explosion in May.

 

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