Turkey mine rescue ends, death toll at 301

May 18, 2014 00:35

Turkey today declared rescue operations over following this week's devastating coalmine blast after retrieving the bodies of two last trapped miners, bringing the final death toll to 301.

"The rescue operation was carried out to completion. There are no miners left underground. All of them have been identified after DNA tests," Energy Minister Taner Yildiz told reporters in the western town of Soma, site of the country's worst ever industrial disaster.

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