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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey's state-run news agency says nine miners have been rescued from a collapsed mine after being trapped inside for several hours.
The accident occurred just months after 301 miners were killed in the country's worst mining disaster.
Officials say the coal mine on Turkey's Black Sea coast collapsed at around 3 a.m., but authorities weren't notified for several hours, delaying the rescue operation.
The news agency says the miners were brought out in the afternoon and immediately hospitalized.
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