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Turkey coal mine live: Death toll rises to 282, 150 still trapped

Follow live updates of the explosion and fire in a coal mine in western Turkey here.

Turkey: 201 dead, hundreds trapped in worst coal mine explosion

Rescuers struggled to reach more than 200 miners trapped underground early Wednesday after an explosion and fire at a coal mine in western Turkey killed at least 201 workers, authorities said, in one of the worst mining disasters in Turkish history.

Turkish coal mine explosion kills over 150, hundreds trapped

An explosion and fire in a coal mine in western Turkey killed at least 151 miners and trapped hundreds more on Tuesday, with the death toll expected to rise in the country's worst mining accident for more than two decades.