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Up to twenty-five mining employees are trapped, missing, or even dead after an explosion at a coal pit in Turkey. The explosion, the cause of which is still unknown, took place at the Karadon mine near the city of Zonguldak on the Black Sea. Turkey's Labour Minister has said that everything possible is being done to reach the twenty-five miners thought to be underground. In general, safety records at Turkish mines lag well behind those of most industrialized countries. This is the second large accident at a Turkish mine this year. The first was in February, when thirteen workers were killed in a methane-gas explosion at a mine in northern Turkey. Turkey also experienced one of the worst mining accidents in an industrialized nation ever. In 1992, 270 miners were killed in an accident in the same Black Sea city of Zonguldak.