A methane gas explosion ripped through a coal mine in western Turkey today, bringing down a mining shaft and killing at least five miners, authorities said.

Turkish officials today quickly denied a television report that a suspected terrorist and three others were injured in a bomb explosion, saying instead that a Turkish tourist had been killed in a gas explosion in southern Turkey.

A suspected terrorist and three others were injured today when a bomb went off prematurely in the hands of the bomber at a small hotel in southern Turkey, private CNN-Turk television reported.

An explosion rocked a coal mine today near Turkey’s Black Sea coast, killing four workers and injuring at least one.