Sensors warned of gas alert 'days before fire' at Turkey mine

Sensors pointed to high levels of toxic gas inside a coal mine days before Turkey’s worst mining disaster, but company officials took no action, reports in the country claim.

Sensors warned of gas alert 'days before fire' at Turkey mine

Sensors pointed to high levels of toxic gas inside a coal mine days before Turkey’s worst mining disaster, but company officials took no action, reports in the country claim.

Prosecutors formally arrested two more people today over the fire in the mine in the western town of Soma that killed 301, raising the number of suspects facing charges of negligent death to five.

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