Turkish families bury mine dead as toll reaches 282
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WOMEN sang improvised ballads about the departed over freshly dug graves yesterday, even as backhoes carved row upon row of graves into the dirt and hearses lined up outside the cemetery with more victims of Turkey’s worst mining disaster.
Rescuers recovered another eight victims, raising the death toll to 282, with 142 people unaccounted for, according to government figures. The disaster Tuesday has set off protests around Turkey and thrown Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s presidential ambitions off stride. Blackening his reputation further, an Erdogan aide was accused of kicking a protester.
No miner has been brought out alive since dawn Wednesday from the Soma coal mine where the explosion took place.
Erdogan, who is expected to soon announce his candidacy for Turkey’s presidential election in August, was not welcome during his visit Wednesday. He took refuge in a supermarket after angry crowds called him a murderer.
Turkish newspapers yesterday printed photographs they said were of an Erdogan aide kicking a protester on the ground.
The prime minister’s office said the issue was the aide’s “own personnel matter.”
Protests broke out in Istanbul, Ankara and other cities Wednesday over the deaths and safety in mines.
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