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| 19.06.2013 | HAZMAT | Turkey | Province of Mugla, Gulluk |  |  |
HAZMAT in Turkey on Wednesday, 19 June, 2013 at 13:53 (01:53 PM) UTC.
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| Negligence allegations are being investigated in the town of Gulluk in the city of Mugla after 7 workers at a waste water treatment plant lost their lives yesterday due to inhaling methane gas. The Machine Engineering Chamber Representative of the Milas province had given a hazard report to the Gulluk waste water treatment plant in 2010. Despite this, the Republican Peoples’ Party (CHP) mayor of the period granted the facility final acceptance. According to a report in Zaman news, the report prepared before the provisional acceptance was not taken into consideration by the municipality. The town’s residents reacted to how the workers had not been given gas masks and how there had been no alarm device at the plant. |
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Methane kills seven in Turkey
18 June 2013, 10:56 (GMT+05:00)
Seven people died as a result of methane poisoning in Milas district of Mugla province of Turkey, CNN Türk channel reported on Tuesday.
According to the report, the poisoning occurred on one of the pumping stations receiving sewage from nearby factories. Workers who conducted the repair work at the station, got poisoned after inhaling methane.
All seven people poisoned by methane died in hospitals where they had been delivered.
A criminal case is started, the incident is under investigation.
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