The accident occurred around noon at a coal mine near the Pamuklu village in the province’s Ermenek district. Rescue teams and ambulances have been dispatched to the area.
The incident occurred when water that had accumulated underground flooded a gallery the mine, Karaman Governor Murat Koca told Anadolu Agency. “Over 40 workers were in the mine at the time of the incident, when there was a problem in one gallery.
The other workers left the mine but 20 miners were left working in the flooded gallery,” Koca said. Turkey was hit by its worst ever mining accident in May this year in the western city of Soma, where 301 workers died after a fire broke out inside the mine’s galleries.
