Turkey Says Four Workers Rescued After Mine Collapses
Four workers were rescued after getting trapped when a mine collapsed in eastern Turkey, officials said Monday, two weeks after a massive landslide in the same region buried nine.
The collapse struck at around 0700 GMT in a privately owned mine in the Palu district of Elazig, the energy ministry said on social media.
“One worker was wounded…
Four workers were rescued after getting trapped when a mine collapsed in eastern Turkey, officials said Monday, two weeks after a massive landslide in the same region buried nine.
The collapse struck at around 0700 GMT in a privately owned mine in the Palu district of Elazig, the energy ministry said on social media.
“One worker was wounded and the others are in good health,” it added.
It said a probe was launched to determine what caused the accident.
A massive landslide buried nine workers at a gold mine in the nearby Ilic district of Erzincan on February 13.
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The rescue operation to find those workers was complicated by a risk of further landslides in the region.
Environmentalists feared that cyanide and sulphuric acid used in the gold extraction process at the Ilic mine could spread to the nearby Euphrates River, which runs from Turkey to neighbouring Syria and Iraq.
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