Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s prime minister, received an angry reception from grief-stricken local residents as he visited the site of an explosion at a mine near the western city of Soma, where at least 245 workers were killed in one of the country’s worst industrial disasters.
The prime minister promised an investigation as he sought to contain public anger into the tragedy, with at least 120 men still trapped 2,000m below ground. About 80 workers were injured in the blast.
Visiting the mine 120km northeast of the Aegean coastal city of Izmir, a crowd jostled and jeered Mr Erdogan, while small protests were also reported in Ankara and Istanbul.