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ANKARA, Turkey--Underground explosions in a coal mine near the Black Sea killed 96 workers and injured 89 others in Turkey's worst mine accident state radio said yesterday.
Fourteen of the injured were listed in serious condition.
The roof of the mine more than 1100 feet below the surface collapsed Monday after the two methane gas blasts.
I heard two loud explosions Dust was everywhere People were running and screaming "save us. A coal cart fell over me," survivor Saban Kardes told The Associated Press from his hospital bed in Eregh, Turkey.
"I thought the end had come. But, at the last minute fellow workers running for their lives stopped for a few minutes to hit off the cart and I was freed and running," the 42-year-old Kardes said.
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