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Istanbul (AFP) Feb 14, 2024 - Calls grew in Turkey on Wednesday to shut down a controversial gold mine as hopes dimmed of rescuing nine workers trapped by a massive landslide that rolled over their open pit.
ISTANBUL, Feb 14, 2024 (BSS/AFP) - Hundreds of Turkish rescuers on Tuesday searched through a cyanide-laced field for nine gold mine
Rescue operation for trapped miners complicated by cyanide in soil
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. Images from the scene showed the landslide sweeping across a valley and crashing into a road where some of the workers were travelling by vehicle. Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said there was no news of nine out of 667 employees at the mine, which is in the remote Ilic district of the eastern Erzincan province.
Calls grew in Turkey on Wednesday to shut down a controversial gold mine as hopes dimmed of rescuing nine workers trapped by a massive landslide that rolled over their open pit.