Word: incirharmani
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Dates: during 1992-1992
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...generations, men along the southern lip of the Black Sea have wagered their lives to dig the riches of coal. At 8 p.m. last Tuesday, 265 miners lost that gamble when a methane explosion bellowed from deep within the Incirharmani mine outside the city of Kozlu, instantly transforming miles of galleries into a subterranean conflagration of toxic gas. Rescuers pulled out 118 bodies before the inferno forced them to seal the passages with cinder blocks, entombing the remaining victims in the still burning mine...
...Incirharmani's safety equipment was rendered useless by the speed of the disaster: methane gas built up to critical levels in a mere 20 seconds, too % fast for automatic detectors to signal the danger. Only last month, Ishak Alaton, an Istanbul businessman, petitioned the government to close the aging mine, where four previous explosions have claimed 107 lives since 1945. Said Alaton: "It is a savage way of exploiting human life and human health...
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