A mine employee was killed and 6 others had been injured after a coal mine in Türkiye’s Black Sea province of Zonguldak partially collapsed on Wednesday, based on Health Minister Fahrettin Koca.
The incident passed off within the Armutcuk coal mine owned by the state-run Turkish Hard Coal Institution (TTK), within the Ereğli district of Zonguldak province, Governor Osman Hacıbektaşoğlu advised reporters.
“Currently, a search and rescue team of 250 people are intervening. One miner was rescued with serious injuries, our teams are in contact with the other three miners. They are carefully trying to remove them,” he mentioned
Hacıbektaşoğlu mentioned that the collapse occurred whereas 280 miners had been on the shift however it affected the world the place 4 of them had been working.
“There is no explosion, just a collapse. For now, there is not a situation that would put the entire quarry and business at risk.”
It occurred 450 meters (1,476.38 toes) beneath the floor, he mentioned with out giving a motive. Injured miners had been hospitalized, he added.
Rescue operations swiftly began as police, the Turkish National Medical Rescue Team (UMKE), the Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) and TTK rescue groups had been dispatched to the scene.
Mining disasters weren’t unusual in Türkiye each in authorized and unlawful mines because of the lack of labor security prior to now.
However, the quantity dropped significantly after the federal government launched harder measures following the nation’s largest mining catastrophe that killed 301 miners within the western Turkish city of Soma in 2014.
Source: www.dailysabah.com
