Rescuers continue to search for miners who are up to 350 metres underground in the pit in Amasra
An explosion deep inside a coalmine in Turkey’s mountainous northern Black Sea region has killed at least 40 people, with rescue efforts and work to contain a fire in the facility continuing on Saturday, hours after the incident.
Turkish officials including the energy minister, Fatih Dönmez, said initial assessments indicated the blast on Friday inside the state-owned mine was caused by a firedamp explosion, a reference to the combustion of pockets of highly flammable gases trapped in the coal bed.
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