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Funerals began Saturday for the victims of a coal mine explosion in northern Turkey as the country’s officials raised the death toll to 41 people.
Some of the miners’ relatives had waited all night outside the state-owned Turkish Hard Coal Enterprise’s (TTK) mine in the town of Amasra, for news.
“We saw a frightful scene, it cannot be described, it’s very sad,” said Celal Kara, a miner who rushed to the scene when he heard the news of Friday’s blast.
“They’re all my friends … they all had dreams,” said Kara, a 14-year mining veteran.
