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Lawsuit opened against officials responsible for killing 18 miners in Ermenek

A lawsuit has been opened into accused of responsibility in a mine accident in the Central Anatolian province of Karaman's Ermenek district that left 18 workers dead last year.

The Ermenek Public Prosecutor's Office announced that a civil lawsuit had been launched at a high criminal court on charges of causing the death of more than one person through conscious negligence.

Official experts find company, state audits guilty in mining disaster in Central Anatolia

An official expert report on the deadly mine accident in the Ermenek town in the Central Anatolian province of Karaman has proven that the disaster was not natural, but caused by technical neglect, while also citing that miners were poorly trained.

Operator of disaster-struck Soma mine obtains license for new plant

The mining company responsible for the operation of the disaster-struck mine in the Aegean coal capital of Soma, where 301 workers lost their lives in Turkey's worst mining accident last May, has obtained authorization to build a new plant in the northern province of Amasya, daily Cumhuriyet has reported.