Thursday, 15 May 2014

TURKEY: VIOLENT PROTEST TOOK PLACE IN THE TOWN WHERE BLAST KILLED MINERS

TURKEY: VIOLENT PROTEST TOOK PLACE IN THE TOWN WHERE BLAST KILLED MINERS



                           The Violent Protest in Some on Thursday

Wednesday in Soma, a violent protest were carry out by Turkish. The mining disaster was the worst disaster recorded in the nation's history. Which claimed 274 lives.
The protesters, including the teens faced riot, police in the down town of Some, in the noon on Wednesday in front of the NKP party headquarters. Rocks were thrown at the police, who chased down some of the protesters. The policemen put on gas masks and water cannons. some of the protesters shouted the named of the prime minister Erdogan was a "murder" and a "thief".
The state hospital was fence by policemen to keep the crowds away from injured miners. Hundreds of protesters gathered together in Istanbul the headquarters of the mining company.
Police force dismissed a group of protesters in the Capital, Ankara, who's wanted to march to the Energy ministry to protest the deaths of their love ones.
The Energy minister Taner Yildize said 787 people were inside the coal mine in Soma at the time of explosion, but 450 of them had been rescued so far.
Meanwhile about 150 workers were still trapped down in the mine. The Turkish Prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erddogen declared three days of national mourning, ordering flags to be lowered to half -staff, postponed a one day visit to Albania to visit Soma.
Isletmeleri A.S the owner of the mine Soma Komur, said the disaster occurred despite the "highest safety measures and constant controls". But "our main priority is to get our workers out so that they may be reunited with their loved ones.

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