Killer coal finally falls out of fashion
By Geoffrey Lean
8:50PM BST 16 May 2014
"These things happen. This is what happens in coalmining. There is no such thing as accident-free work.”
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s reaction to his country’s worst industrial disaster, which has killed some 300 miners in Soma, north of Izmir, seems the height of heartlessness. And it’s consistent: he shrugged off a – smaller – fatal accident four years ago with the comment that mining “has dying in its destiny”.
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