Radar detection devices used to try to locate the missingNews from disaster shared early this morning;
More than 800 search and rescue personnel, including police and military teams, mine rescuers and volunteers, were deployed to search for the nine missing personnel, Yerlikaya said.
Other workers at the mine have also joined the efforts to rescue their colleagues, while families of the missing waited in an area close to the mine for news of their loved ones, Haberturk television reported.
Yerlikaya later told reporters that five of the missing workers were believed to be near or inside a metal container when the landslide hit. Three others were either inside or close to a vehicle, while another was inside a truck, he said, adding that rescuers were using radar detection devices to try to locate the missing.
“We have an advantage in this mass,” Yerlikaya said. “We have started to search (for the vehicles and container) with metal radar detection. As soon as we get a trace of these vehicles and container with these radar scans, we want to focus on them and make progress.”
Police, meanwhile, detained four senior mine officials, including the field manager, as part of an investigation into the disaster, national broadcaster TRT reported. May God direct their search. Full reporting:
https://kitchener.citynews.ca/2024/02/14/hundreds-of-rescuers-deployed-in-search-for-9-workers-missing-at-landslide-hit-turkish-gold-mine/