Some 20 coal miners are feared dead and hundreds trapped after an underground explosion in Turkey.
At least 20 workers have been rescued from the mine in Soma, a town in the eastern Manisa province, local MP Mazaffer Yurttas told NTV.
However, as many as 400 miners are thought to be trapped in shifts and tunnels.
The blast was caused by a fire in a power distribution unit 2,000ft (610 metres) below the ground, NTV reported.
Fresh air is being pumped into the mine to help trapped workers struggling to breathe, it added.
Sky's Foreign Affairs Correspondent Lisa Holland said: "That's a positive development compared to, for example, the Chilean mine collapse in 2010, when dozens of workers were trapped for two months."
A rescue mission is under way with teams from across Manisa sent to Soma to help.
Mining accidents are not unheard of in Turkey, where workers sometimes endure poor safety conditions.
The country's worst mining disaster was in 1992, when a gas explosion killed 270 workers near the Black Sea port of Zonguldak.
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