Coal mine blast in northern Turkey kills 3, leaves 5 hurt
Rescuers searched for one trapped miner as officials said two of the injured were in serious condition and being transferred to Ankara.
- On Friday, a methane gas explosion at a private coal mine near Kilimli, Zonguldak, killed three workers and injured five, state broadcaster TRT reported. The blast occurred around 10 a.m.
- Local authorities identified the cause as "firedamp," or flammable gas, at the facility operated by Demir Madencilik. Emergency teams from the Disaster and Emergency Management Authority were dispatched to the site.
- Zonguldak Governor Osman Hacibektasoglu initially reported two deaths, with rescue teams working to reach one trapped worker. Officials later confirmed the toll rose to three, while two injured were transferred to Ankara.
- Data from the Worker Health and Work Safety Assembly underscores systemic risks in Turkey's mining sector, with 1,267 fatalities recorded between 2013 and 2025. Most deaths resulted from cave-ins and suffocation.
- This incident follows a collapse in Soma, Manisa, earlier this month that killed five people, recalling Turkey's 2014 coal mine disaster in the same town where 301 workers perished in a fire.
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A methane gas explosion inside a mine in northern Turkey on Friday killed three workers and injured five others, state media reported. The explosion occurred in a privately owned coal mine near the town of Kilimli, in the Black Sea coastal province of Zonguldak, state broadcaster TRT reported. An investigation has been launched into the incident. Osman Hacibektasoglu, the governor of Zonguldak, told reporters that two of the injured miners were …
Three miners were killed today, Friday, and others were injured by an explosion of methane gas inside the mine in northern Turkey.
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