Manisa

One engineer and two technicians died in a labor accident in the western province of Manisa on June 26.

The accident occurred during maintenance work at a waste water pumping facility in a leather factory complex inside an industrial zone.

An explosion at a coal mine in western Turkey has left at least 201 workers dead.

Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz told reporters early Wednesday that a total of 787 people had been inside the mine at Soma in Manisa province at the time of the explosion, according to reports of the BBC.