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Turkish PM says 120 workers still believed trapped in coal mine

by Reuters
Wednesday, 14 May 2014 13:19 GMT

SOMA, Turkey, May 14 (Reuters) - Around 120 workers were still thought to be trapped in a coal mine in western Turkey where 238 miners were killed after a fire, in one of the country's worst ever industrial disasters, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday.

(Writing by Humeyra Pamuk; Editing by Nick Tattersall)

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