2022 mining disaster in Amasra, Turkey
On 14 October 2022, an
explosion occurred in
Amasra coal mine in
Amasra ,
Bartın Province , Turkey, killing 42 people and injuring 27.
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[4] It was one of the deadliest industrial incidents in Turkey.
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The explosion occurred at 6:30 p.m.
Turkish time ,
[7] at a depth of about 300 metres.
[8] At the time of the incident, around 110 people were working in the mine and almost half of them were below 300 m (980 ft) deep.
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[11] Some reports stated that five people were working under 350 m (1,150 ft) and 44 people were working under 300 m (980 ft).
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Minister of the Interior
Süleyman Soylu said that more than 22 people had died
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[16] and 28 people crawled out on their own.
[17] Minister of Health
Fahrettin Koca said that 11 people had been pulled out alive and were being treated in hospital.
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[19] 58 miners were saved.
Location of the coal mine in Turkey
The cause of the blast is yet unknown
[20] [
needs update ] and is under investigation,
[21] with
firedamp (possibly
coalbed methane ) being one suspected cause.
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President
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan wrote on Twitter that he was closely monitoring the situation and said that search and rescue operations were progressing rapidly at the mine. Erdoğan canceled a planned trip to
Diyarbakır and instead traveled to Amasra on 15 October.
[23] Erdoğan's comments linking the explosion to "the plan of destiny" and saying that such explosions "will always be" drew criticism from opposition leader
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu , as well as protests in Istanbul.
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