Soma coal mine News

Sensors noted high levels of toxic gas inside a coal mine days before the disaster that killed 301 workers in Turkey but company officials took no action, Turkish news reports said Monday. Prosecutors, meanwhile, formally arrested two more people for …

Miner Erdal Bicak believes he knows why so many of his colleagues died in Turkey’s worst mining disaster: company negligence. And he knows one other thing – he’s never going back down any mine again. Bicak, 24, had just ended …