Rescuers pulled more dead and injured from a coal mine in western Turkey after an explosion killed at least 200 people and trapped scores more.<br /><br />Turkey’s energy minister says there is less and less hope of finding new survivors in one of the country’s worst mining accidents.<br /><br />Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has cancelled other commitments to travel to the site of the disaster.<br /><br />The blast is thought to have been caused by an electrical fault which then triggered a power cut making the lifts unusable and leaving miners stranded some two kilometres underground.<br /><br />There are calls on social media for protests in front of the Istanbul headquarters of the company operating the mine.<br /><br />Rescue workers immediately pumped oxygen down the mine to keep those trapped by the blaze alive .. however the operation to reach survivers was briefly stopped after a second fire in the ventilation system.<br /><br />Nearly 800 workers had been in the mine in Soma, which lies around 120 kilometres north east of the coastal city of Izmir. <br /><br />Anxious relatives rushed to the pit head, with all those who could trying to help.
