Decrease the chances of survival for 18 miners buried in Turkey. Rescue workers continue to have no contact with the miners who are trapped by water ingress.

The hope of rescue workers dwindles: After the collapse of a mine shaft in the southern Turkish Town Ermenek there is no further contact with the victim 18, Taner Yildiz told Energy Secretary. “Time is against us,” he said, according to the Anatolia news agency on the scene. The still trapped miners floated in great danger.

According to the Energy Minister about 11,000 cubic meters of water had penetrated into the slot on Tuesday in more than 300 meters depth. 16 workers could therefore save on their own. The cause of the crash is still unknown, Yildiz said.

Because of the accident, the authorities said the celebrations of the Turkish national day on Wednesday. State Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu will travel in the afternoon to the scene of the accident.

In Turkey, it always comes back to mining accidents. In the western Turkish city of Soma 301 pal were killed in May when most serious mining disaster in the country’s history. Back then broke in the shaft of a fire. The cause of the misfortune of Soma is officially still under investigation.

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