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Turkish rescuers have recovered the bodies of three miners trapped in a mine collapse in western Turkey, bringing the death toll from the incident to five, local authorities said on Friday.
The collapse occurred on Thursday at a mine in Soma, in Manisa province, about 100 kilometres northeast of the resort city of Izmir.
The governor’s office said rescue operations had ended after the bodies of the three workers who remained trapped underground were recovered.
Seven workers were caught in the collapse. Rescue teams initially recovered the bodies of two miners, while two others were rescued and taken to hospital. The remaining three workers were later found dead, raising the death toll to five.
“Search and rescue operations carried out after the mine collapse in Soma district have ended and the bodies of the three mine workers who were trapped have been recovered,” the governor’s office said.
Following the incident, nine company executives, including the manager of the mine’s operating company, were detained on suspicion of negligence, according to the DHA news agency.
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Soma was the site of Turkey’s deadliest mining disaster in 2014, when 301 miners died from carbon monoxide poisoning after an underground fire triggered by an explosion.
In a separate incident on Friday, an unlicensed mine collapsed near Kilimli, a town on Turkey’s Black Sea coast, leaving one miner trapped, DHA reported.
The miner was rescued by his colleagues but sustained severe injuries and later died in hospital.
