Rescuers on Saturday found the body of the last missing miner at a coal mine in northern Turkey, bringing the death toll to 41 from a methane blast the previous day.
The blast ripped through the mine near the small coal mining town of Amasra on Turkey's Black Sea coast shortly before sunset on Friday.
"Our priority was to find the miners in the gallery. We finally reached the last one. He also died, bringing the number of deaths to 41," he said, ending rescue operations more than 20 hours after the deadly explosion. But other officials said it was premature to draw definitive conclusions over the cause of the accident.Rescuers sent in reinforcements from surrounding villages to help in the search and rescue.
The local governor said a team of more than 70 rescuers had managed to reach a point in the pit some 250 metres below.
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