Four miners were injured, two seriously, after an explosion at a mine in Zonguldak province (northwest), Turkish media reported on Sunday, three weeks after 42 miners died in a firedamp explosion 50 kilometers away. of the.
This new explosion occurred overnight from Saturday to Sunday in a private mine in the Kilimli district, for an as yet unknown reason, according to the Turkish news agency DHA.
The two seriously injured, burned to the body, were transported to a hospital in Ankara, the Turkish capital, reported DHA.
Members of the Turkish opposition immediately called for emergency measures, recalling that 42 miners died following an explosion which occurred on October 14 in a coal mine of Amasra, in the neighboring province of Bartin.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, while affirming that those responsible would not be “
spared
”, had declared that these accidents were the fact of “
fate
”.
Turkish authorities announced in late October that they had arrested 25 people, including the manager of the state-held Amasra mine.
