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/ 8 September 2004
A fire that raged through a copper mine in northern Turkey killed 19 workers and injured 17 others on Wednesday. Rescuers were searching the smoke-clogged shafts to make sure that no one was left inside. The fire broke out inside the mine in the town of Kure in Kastamonu province, trapping about 30 workers.
Two trains collided head-on in north-western Turkey on Wednesday, killing six people and injuring about 30 others, an official said. Firefighters were trying to enter the first car of one of the trains to pull out passengers. The car was smashed and flipped over in the collision near the village of Tavsancil in Kocaeli province.
At least 18 people died in two separate accidents on Friday in Turkey, including seven school children killed when a train slammed into their minibus at a railway crossing. The children were killed on the spot when the express train ripped into the white minibus at Temelli, about 64km west of Ankara, local officials said.
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/ 9 February 2004
A 24-year-old woman buried alive for nearly a week was pulled from the rubble of a collapsed Turkish housing block on Monday, the second ”miracle survivor” from a tragedy in which at least 87 died. ”She said ‘get me out and I will have you over for tea’,” a rescuer said, adding that he was unable to hold back his tears.
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/ 3 February 2004
Rescue workers removed 12 bodies and 28 injured people from the rubble of an 11-storey residential building that collapsed in the central Turkish city of Konya, and work was continuing to find dozens more who were believed trapped, a local official said early on Tuesday.
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/ 14 October 2003
A suicide bomber blew himself up in a car outside the Turkish mission in Baghdad on Tuesday, wounding two Iraqi security guards. The attack comes just a week after Turkey decided to send peacekeeping troops to Iraq despite strong objections from Iraq’s interim leadership.
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/ 25 February 2003
US warplanes bombed surface-to-surface missile systems in northern Iraq early on Tuesday after Iraqi forces moved the missiles into a US-patrolled no-fly zone, the US military said.
A long-running hunger strike by Turkish prisoners against high-security new jails claimed its 55th victim when a woman inmate died at the weekend