SOMA, Turkey – Ibrahim Kursun was working in a cramped corridor at the Soma coal mine when the air turned suddenly acrid and the lights flickered and went out.

Coal mines in the U.S. had a record low 20 deaths in 2012 and again in 2013, according to the Mine Safety and Health Administration. China is the deadliest mining country with more than 1,000 ...

A day after an explosion at a coal mine killed at least 245 miners in Soma, Turkey, family members are gathering in protest. Sebnem Arsu of The New York Times offers more details from Soma.

An explosion left at least 301 workers in a coal mine in Soma, in the western province of Manisa. The number of arrests within the investigation climbed to 8. TÜRKÇE KURDÎ ...

Since the mine explosion in Soma, Turkey, Davitt McAteer has been looking into what went wrong. He's the former head of the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration, and he addresses the tragedy.

In Turkey’s worst mine disaster, 301 people died in a fire inside a coal mine in the town of Soma, in the country’s west, in 2014. Then, the damage was so great that it took four days to ...

SOMA, Turkey – Rescuers desperately raced against time to reach more than 200 miners trapped underground Wednesday after an explosion and fire at a coal mine in western Turkey killed at least… ...

Relatives of miners who were killed or injured in a mine explosion react as rescuers work in Soma, a district in Turkey's western province of Manisa May 14, 2014.

AMASRA, Turkey -- Funerals for miners killed in a coal mine explosion in northern Turkey began Saturday as officials raised the death toll to at least 41 people. Desperate relatives waited all ...

Turkey's worst mine disaster was in 2014, when 301 miners died after a fire erupted inside a coal mine in the town of Soma, in the west of the country. Five months later, ...

Turkey suffered its worst mining accident in 2014, when 301 people were killed after an explosion in a coal mine in the town of Soma, about 150 miles south of Istanbul, sparked a fire that burned ...

Relatives of one of the miners killed in a coal mine explosion mourn during his funeral outside a mosque in Amasra, in the Black Sea coastal province of Bartin, Turkey, Saturday, Oct. 15, 2022.