Three people were arrested on charges of negligence over the Turkish mining disaster in which 301 people died, a prosecutor said today.

Rescue teams have recovered more bodies from a coal mine in western Turkey, raising the death toll in the country’s worst mining accident to 282, officials said.

An explosion and a fire killed at least 151 workers at a coal mine in western Turkey and hundreds more remained trapped underground.

Turkey’s disaster management agency has raised the death toll from a mining accident in the west of the country to 70.

An explosion and fire at a coal mine in western Turkey has killed at least five people and trapped hundreds of workers underground.