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274 dead in Turkey coal mine fire 120 missing

AFP, Soma
At least 274 workers were confirmed dead in Turkey's devastating mine explosion, officials said yesterday, making the accident the country's worst industrial catastrophe.
Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said the raging fire was hampering rescue efforts, adding that "time is not working in our favour".
Anger was growing across Turkey yesterday as hopes faded for scores of workers trapped in the collapsed mine.
Thousands of protesters took to the streets in Ankara and Istanbul, accusing the government and mining industry of negligence, as Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan rejected claims of government culpability.
"We have witnessed one of the biggest work accidents in our recent history," Erdogan told reporters after visiting the mine in the western town of Soma in Manisa province.
Erdogan said figures remained uncertain but mining operators thought 120 workers were still trapped following Tuesday's explosion, caused by an electrical fault. Reports from rescue workers on the scene suggest the figure could be far higher.
Erdogan said enquiries would lx* launched into die causes of die disaster, but insisted that "such accidents happen".
He also appeared to downplay die seriousness of die accident, comparing it to odier mining disasters elsewhere, saying "204 people died in the UK in 1862 and 3 61 people in 1864".
"There is something in literature called work accidents."
But hundreds of distraught family and friends gadiered near the building where Erdogan gave a press conference were outraged, with some kicking his vehicle and calling for his resignation as he left.
Public anger also erupted on die streets over die accident which had claimed at least 245 lives -- most by carbon monoxide poisoning.
Police used tear gas and water canon to disperse between 3,000 and 4,000 protesters in Ankara's downtown Kizilay Square on Wednesday evening.
Riot police also clashed widi thou-sands of protesters in Istanbul who were chanting anti-government slogans as diey marched along die city's main shoppingstreet Istiklal.
Earlier in the day, they also used tear gas against around 800 students marching on the energy ministry', and 50 protesters who threw eggs at the mining research directorate in Istanbul, AFP photographers reported.
The disaster risks adding to the political pressure on Erdogan, who faced mass protests last summer and a huge corruption scandal involving his family and key allies in recent months.
" I fdieclaims of negligence at the mine prove true, it will have a political price. Such a development would render corruption allegations targeting Erdogan's government more convincing," Professor liter Turan of Istanbul's Bilgi University told AFP.
'NO MO RE HOPE'
Three days of national mourning have been declared, while at the scene of die accident, fires and toxic gases were complicating increasingly desperate efforts by 400 rescue workers.
A miner from a different site who joined the effort, Murat Kurkoglu, told AFP: "We will try' to save those who are Still stuck one by one, but you know very well that there is no more hope.
It's finished forthem."
Earlier reports said 787 workers were underground when die blast occurred. By late Wednesday, "close to 450" workers had been rescued, according to die mine operator, Soma Komur Inc, but accounts from rescue workers cast doubt over the numbers.
"There are pockets of air, but it's only a glimmer of hope because so far ... it's mosdy the dead diat we are bringing out," Erdem Bakin, a doctor with the Search and Rescue organisation, told AFP.
"We don't go more than 100 metres from die bottom of die mine. It's impossible to go right to the bottom because of the risk of asphyxiation from the gas."
Bakin said they found die transformer diat exploded, triggering die collapse. Those between die transformer and the entrance of the mine -- around 70-80 people - survived.
"But those who were beyond were taken by die fire and diey are all dead," he said.
Harun Hnzar, a mineral die site, said: "We are a family and today diat family is devastated. We have had very little news