--- description: Dramatic photographs show the fear and urgency as rescuers frantically scrabble to find survivors of Tuesday's coal mine explosion in Turkey title: Turkish Manisas Mine Disaster: Photos image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt552828bb49127529/69868f4055a8598226a80d16/turkey-manisa-mine-explosion-6.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Turkey: Images of a Mining Tragedy by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 14, 2014 3:15 AM CUT  An injured miner came out carried by rescuers, on May 13, 2014 after an explosion in a coal mine in Manisa. An injured miner came out carried by rescuers, on May 13, 2014 after an explosion in a coal mine in Manisa.Bulent Kilic—AFP/Getty Images by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 14, 2014 3:15 AM CUT  An injured miner came out carried by rescuers, on May 13, 2014 after an explosion in a coal mine in Manisa. Bulent Kilic—AFP/Getty Images  A miner use his lighter as miners wait at the gate of a mine after an explosion in Manisa on May 13, 2014. Bulent Kilic—AFP/Getty Images  Miners wait at the gate of a mine after an explosion in Manisa on May 13, 2014. Bulent Kilic—AFP/Getty Images  An injured or death miner is carried by rescuers after an explosion in Manisa on May 13, 2014. Bulent Kilic—AFP/Getty Images  A miner with his father after an explosion on May 13, 2014 in Manisa. Bulent Kilic—AFP/Getty Images  A woman cries as she waits for a news on May 14, 2014. Bulen Kilic—AFP/Getty Images  An injured miner came out carried by rescuers after an explosion in Manisa on May 13, 2014. Bulent Kilic—AFP/Getty Images  People cry after their relatives died in an explosion in Manisa on May 13, 2014. Bulent Kilic—AFP/Getty Images  Family members and miners gather around ambulances waiting outside a coal mine in Soma, western Turkey, early Wednesday, May 14, 2014. Emre Tazegul—AP  A miner reacts after being affected with toxic gas while searching for co-workers who remain trapped underground on May 14, 2014 after an explosion and fire in their coal mine in the western Turkish province of Manisa. Bulent Kilic—AFP/Getty Images  Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan visits the site where 120 workers were believed to remain trapped in a mine after a deadly explosion that claimed the lives of well over 200 people on May 14, 2014 in a coal mine of the western Turkish province of Manisa. Bulent Kilic—AFP/Getty Images  A woman reacts as she searches for relatives while rescuers carry out dead miners on May 14, 2014. Bulent Kilic—AFP/Getty Images  People gather, searching for their relatives, as rescuers carry out bodies of dead miners on May 14, 2014 after an explosion and fire in a coal mine in the western Turkish province of Manisa. Bulent Kilic—AFP/Getty Images  Miners change their clothes in an outside building after searching for hours hundreds of their co-workers who remain trapped underground on May 14, 2014 after an explosion and fire in their coal mine in the western Turkish province of Manisa. Bulent Kilic—AFP/Getty Images  Boats of miners are pictured in an outside building after searching for hours hundreds of co-workers who remain trapped underground on May 14, 2014 after an explosion and fire in their coal mine in the western Turkish province of Manisa. Bulent Kilic—AFP/Getty Images  People sit near graves in a cemetary in Manisa on May 14, 2014, dug for the funeral of miners killed in a mine blast the day before in the western Turkish province of Manisa. Bulent Kilic—AFP/Getty Images  Turkish people mourn in a cemetary in Manisa on May 14, 2014, during the funeral of miners killed in a mine blast the day before in the western Turkish province of Manisa. Bulent Kilic—AFP/Getty Images  People dig graves for miners in a cemetery during the funeral ceremony of miners who died in an explosion on May 15, 2014, in the western town of Soma in the Manisa province. Bulent Kilic—AFP/Getty Images  Duygu Colak, reacts as she sits in front of her husband Ugur's grave during a funeral ceremony in the western town of Soma in the Manisa province on May 15, 2014. Bulent Kilic—AFP/Getty Images  People mourn in a cemetery during the funeral ceremony of miners who died in an explosion on May 15, 2014, in the western town of Soma in the Manisa province. 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