[net-gold] DISASTERS: MINES : COUNTRIES: TURKEY: Despair, Anger, Dwindling Hope After Turkey Coal Mine Fire
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- Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 16:43:33 -0400 (EDT)
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DISASTERS: MINES :
COUNTRIES: TURKEY:
Despair, Anger, Dwindling Hope After Turkey Coal Mine Fire
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Despair, Anger, Dwindling Hope After Turkey Coal Mine Fire
By Ivan Watson, Gul Tuysuz and Greg Botelho
CNN
updated 4:21 PM EDT, Wednesday May 14, 2014
http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/14/world/europe/turkey-mine-accident/
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Soma, Turkey (CNN) -- The scene was somber, sullen and mostly silent
outside the Turkish coal mine. But every so often, the grief came out loud
and clear.
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"Enough for the life for me!" yelled one woman -- her arms flailing, tears
running down her cheeks -- according to video from Turkish broadcaster
DHA. "Let this mine take my life, too!"
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As she was pulled away, she added, "Enough is enough."
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Sadly, the torment for her and many others isn't over.
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Yes, rescuers did save at least 88 miners in the frantic moments after a
power transformer blew up Tuesday during shift change at the mine in the
western Turkish city of Soma, sparking a choking fire deep inside.
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But another 274 are known dead, according to Turkey's Natural Disaster and
Emergency Coordination Directorate. Those who underwent autopsies died of
carbon monoxide poisoning, Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said.
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There is every expectation that number will grow.
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Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday as many as 120 more
were trapped inside the mine, though that was before rescue crews grimly
hurried a series of stretchers -- at least some clearly carrying corpses
-- past the waiting crowd.
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As helicopters buzzed overheard and flags flew at half-staff, police and
rescue workers were everywhere on the scene Wednesday night. But for most,
there was precious little they could do.
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The smoke rose from openings in the ground showed the continuing dangers
both to those trapped and anyone who dared try to get them. Rescue
volunteer Mustafa Gursoy told the CNN team at the mine that conditions
inside the mine were abominable -- hot, smoky and filled with carbon
monoxide.
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Authorities worked to pump in good air into the mine, so they could get
in. However, as Davitt McAteer, a former top U.S. mine safety official
points out, sending in oxygen likely would "increase the likelihood that
the fire would grow and continue to put those miners at risk."
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These stiff challenges notwithstanding, rescuers haven't given up hope
that some miners reached emergency chambers stocked with gas masks and
air.
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Political fallout
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The trauma from what already looks like the worst mine disaster in Turkish
history has left Soma and the rest of Turkey in shock and, in some cases,
in anger. The latest death toll already tops a mining accident in the
1990s that took 260 lives.
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Even as officials in the United States and elsewhere offered their
condolences to his people, Erdogan found himself on the defensive.
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Opposition politician Ozgur Ozel from the Manisa region had filed a
proposal in late April to investigate Turkish mines after repeated deadly
accidents.
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In some incidents three people died, in others, five, said opposition
spokesman Aykut Erdogdu. And Ozel wanted to get to the bottom of the
deaths.
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Several dozen members of opposition parties signed on to his proposal, but
the conservative government overturned it. Some of its members publicly
lampooned it, he said.
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Erdogan questioned Ozel's version, and said the mine had passed safety
inspections as recently as March.
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The mine, owned by SOMA Komur Isletmeleri A.S., underwent regular
inspections in the past three years, two of them this March, Turkey's
government said. Inspectors reported no violation of health and safety
laws.
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