Recovered 2 miners named
18 miners got trapped in a coal mine in `Karaman` province after the pit was filled with water. The lifeless bodies of 2 of the miners were recovered from the pit, while an operation continues for the recovery of the remaining bodies
Has Şekerler Madencilik Co. Ltd.s coalmine between Güneyyurt town and Pamuklu village of Karaman provinces Ermenek district in central Turkey filled with water and trapped 26 miners t 12.15pm on October 28. 8 of the workers managed to get out of the pit with their own efforts, but 18 got trapped inside the mine waiting to be rescued.The trapped miners had previously been named as; Osman Çoksöyler, Hüsnü Çolak, Ali Haznedar, Kerim Haznedar, Mehmet Tokat Hüseyin Çolak, İsa Gözbaşı, Bahri Üzer, Kamil Yaman, Tezcan Gökçe Uğur İlhan, Hüseyin Gültekin, İsmail Gürses, Mehmet Baha Mehmet Özcan Hasan Tuncer, Recep Çiloğlu, and Ömer Cansu.Two bodies were eventually recovered from the pit over a week after the disaster. The bodies were named as Kerim Haznedar and İsa Gözbaşı following a DNA investigation.
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