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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