Turkey coal mine methane explosion 'kills 17'
A methane explosion at a coal mine in north-west Turkey has killed 17 workers, Turkish news agencies say
BBC News | 23 February 2010
The blast caused an underground chamber to collapse at a mine 20km (12 miles) outside Dursunbey, in Balikesir province, officials said.
Some 29 workers were rescued after the explosion, which came two months after a blast at a mine in Bursa killed 19.
The safety record of Turkey's coal mining industry lags behind that of most industrial nations, analysts say.
Several of those evacuated were taken to hospital with severe burns after the blast, which the mine's owner said had buried the miners nearly 820 feet (250m) below the surface.
Seventeen workers were killed in a similar blast at the mine in 2006, Turkey's Anatolia news agency reported.
The country's worst mining disaster was in 1992, when 270 miners were killed near the Black Sea port of Zonguldak.
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