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Rescuers in northern Turkey worked on Saturday to free more than a dozen miners still thought to be trapped underground at a coal pit, where a methane blast a day earlier killed at least 28 people ▶️ u.afp.com/iwwr
#BREAKING Turkey mine blast death toll rises to at least 40: interior minister
#UPDATE Rescuers on Saturday searched for the last miner missing at a coal mine in northern Turkey, where a methane blast the previous day killed at least 40 people in one of the country's worst industrial accidents in years ▶️ u.afp.com/iwwr #Amasra
#UPDATE Rescuers in northern Turkey found the body of the last missing miner at a coal mine on Saturday, bringing the death toll from a methane blast the previous day to 41 ▶️ u.afp.com/iwwr #Amasra

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