Turkey mine: 'Race against time' to free workers after landslide
There are also concerns chemicals from the site could spread into the nearby Euphrates River.
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There are also concerns chemicals from the site could spread into the nearby Euphrates River.
Authorities on Wednesday detained four people in connection with a massive landslide that engulfed a gold mine in eastern Türkiye, leaving at least nine workers missing, Turkish state media reported. The landslide struck the Anagold Madencilik company's Copler mine in the town of Ilic in Türkiye's mountainous Erzincan province on Tuesday. Video seemingly shot by a worker showed a huge mass of earth rushing down a gully, overrunning everything in its path. The landslide involved a mound of soil extracted from the mine, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said.
Hundreds of Turkish rescuers on Tuesday searched through a cyanide-laced field for nine gold mine workers who were swallowed by a massive landslide that rolled over their open pit.
Hundreds of rescue workers searching for nine missing men in east of the country
Hundreds of Turkish rescuers on Tuesday searched through a cyanide-laced field for nine gold mine workers who were swallowed by a massive landslide that rolled over their open pit.Environmental activists and local officials tried to shut down the open pit mine after a 2022 cyanide leak.