Turkey Mine Disaster: Clashes After 274 Killed
Rescuers battle fire and toxic fumes as they search for more than 100 missing miners stuck underground in western Turkey.

新聞背景：
當地時間5月13日，土耳其西部馬尼薩省索瑪地區的一個煤礦發生爆炸，前已造成274人死亡，此外有約450人獲救。
土耳其能源和自然資源部長耶爾德茲在宣布最新死亡數字的同時，表示救援工作仍在進行中。救援人員將嘗試從兩個不同位置進入礦內搜索。但耶爾德茲也同時透露礦內情況仍比較危險，明火仍未完全撲滅，火災和有毒的一氧化碳氣體阻礙了救援工作的進展。。事發時有近800名礦工在井下作業，仍有至少百余名礦工生死未卜。
聯合國秘書長潘基文、國際勞工組織總干事萊德等聯合國系統高官紛紛對土耳其嚴重礦難表示哀悼，向遇難者家屬表示慰問。
聯合國秘書長發言人杜加里克當天說，潘基文將親自致信土耳其總統居爾，就該國礦難向土耳其政府和人民表示哀悼。
美國白宮表示美國愿為土耳其礦難的救援工作提供支持。美國參議院外交關系委員會主席梅內德斯也對礦難死難者表示哀悼。

As each stretcher is born from the mine, those crowding the entrance faced two dilemmas: Is it their loved one being carried from the disaster? And if so, is he alive or dead? The smoke still billows from the mine,its toxic cloud incapacitating those sent in to bring out the casualties. The grief and anger is overwhelming and on an enormous scale. Stunned relatives sit on the sides of the road, comforting each other. At the state hospital, they are struggling to cope. The bodies of the dead and the injured arrived in a steady stream. In what is sure to become Turkey's worst ever mining disaster, three days of mourning has been declared by the Prime Minister.
Tayyip Erdogan has been in power for eleven years. His increasingly authoritarian rule has infuriated many urban dwellers. On his visit to the mine, he promised to discover the cause.
At the end of March 2010, it was determined that this mine passed in the fields of work and house safety. I went through all the inspections. I'd like to say that the pain we have left behind is not just that of the brothers we have lost, it's our shared pain, the pain of the nation.
Those words did little to salve the anger. Hundreds gathered to protest what they say is a chronic disregard for safety practices at many privately owned mines. The firm which operates the complex has done so for thirty years. And it had recently both said to be significantly reducing the running cost. These pictures inside the mine were taken three years ago with the local MP greeting those of the coal face, the low height of the tunnel is clear as he bends down to shake the hands.
The fire started on Tuesday afternoon to clear the gases from where the miners were trapped. They worked through the night, pumping in the oxygen and pulling all the men they could from the ground. The poisonous fire and its aftermath are already testing the government, which claimed the mine passed the safety inspection in March. But with allegations of under-aged workers and miners being allowed to operate without the authorization carts, the question is mounting as the body count rises.