|
(Continued from page 21)
• Mobs are torching foreign-owned factories suspected of being Chinese to express their anger over China's new oil rig in disputed Southeast Asian waters.
•
• 8. WHERE ANOTHER SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BAN WAS STRUCK DOWN
• Gay and lesbian couples in Idaho could start getting married as soon as Friday after the state's prohibition of same-sex nuptials was ruled unconstitutional.
•
• 9. SURVIVING THE WAR, ONLY TO FALL AT HOME
• A Vermont soldier suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is shot and killed by one of his children after terrorizing the family all evening one night in April. Now his widow vows to carry on his work of helping veterans find treatment.
•
• 10. AGE TO BUY CIGARETTES: 18. AGE TO HARVEST TOBACCO: 7 AND UP
• Human Rights Watch says children work long hours in hazardous conditions harvesting pesticide-laced tobacco leaves.
•
AP News in Brief
Explosion and fire at Turkish coal mine kills 205; more than 200 miners trapped underground
• SOMA, Turkey (AP) -- Rescuers desperately raced against time to reach more than 200 miners trapped underground Wednesday after an explosion and fire at a coal mine in western Turkey killed at least 205 workers, authorities said, in one of the worst mining disasters in Turkish history.
• Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said 787 people were inside the coal mine in Soma, some 250 kilometers (155 miles) south of Istanbul, at the time of the explosion and 363 of them had been rescued so far.
• "Regarding the rescue operation, I can say that our hopes are diminishing," Yildiz said.
• Turkey's worst mining disaster was a 1992 gas explosion that killed 263 workers near the Black Sea port of Zonguldak.
• As bodies were brought out on stretchers, rescue workers pulled blankets back from the faces of the dead to give jostling crowds of anxious family members a chance to identify victims. One elderly man wearing a prayer cap wailed after he recognized one of the dead, and police restrained him from climbing into an ambulance with the body.
• ___
(Continued on page 23)
|
|
