As announced by BBC, after hearing the Turkish Energy Minister, Fatih Dönmez, “with the discovery of the last bodies, the great rescue operation is nearing its end”.
On the morning of this Saturday, October 14, the toll of the explosion that occurred yesterday in a coal mine in Amasra, in northern Anatolia, was further revised upwards. Now, 41 victims have been counted, out of a total of “about 110 people who were in the mine at the time of the explosion, almost all of them 300 meters deep”, details the British media.
58 minors survived
Throughout the night from Friday to Saturday, teams of rescuers dug into the rock to try to reach potential survivors.
Results : “58 minors were able to be saved, or escaped on their own”said Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu. And since the BBC also counts 11 injured, only one person remained “missing”, who was finally declared dead in the afternoon.
If the precise causes of the accident are not known at this time (an investigation is underway), “For the Minister of Energy, Fatih Donmez, there are indications that the explosion was caused by firedamp, which is methane forming an explosive mixture in coal mines”, concludes the information site.