Rescuers in Turkey search for 12 missing miners; 4 dead
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ANKARA -- Rescue teams recovered another body from a copper mine that collapsed in southeastern Turkey, officials said Friday, raising the death toll to four.
A rescue operation to find 12 miners still missing was underway, but the head of Turkey's crisis management agency, Halis Bilden, said chances of reaching them alive were slim.
"I don't believe that we will be able to reach them alive," Bilden told reporters from the mine site in televised comments. "I cannot say that we have reached signs of life."
The privately-owned mine near the town of Sirvan, in Siirt province caved in late Thursday.
