Turkey Ends Search with 301 Miners Dead

Rescuers in Turkey have begun wrapping up search operations at the site of the country's worst-ever coal mine disaster. On Saturday, Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said rescue workers found the bodies of two more miners, raising the death toll to 301. He said they are believed to be the last remaining victims at the Soma Holding Co. mine in western Turkey. Yildiz said 485 miners either had escaped or were rescued.   "There are no mine workers in the mine at the...

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