PodcastChildren of miners who died in Turkey's biggest accident visit fathers’ graves on anniversary of disaster
The children of the 301 miners who died in the largest mining accident in Turkey's modern history visited their fathers’ graves on the anniversary of the disaster. Though people under 20 have been under curfew for nearly two months, kids rushed to their fathers’ graves during a four-hour exemption on May 13.
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The children of the workers who died in Turkey's biggest mining accident visited their fathers’ graves on the anniversary of their death on May 13.
Some 301 miners died after a mine collapsed in the Soma district of the Aegean town of Manisa on May 13, 2014.
Families wore personal protective equipment as they visited the graves of their loved ones on the sixth anniversary of the Soma Disaster.
The children of the deceased miners left carnations by their fathers’ tombstones. Some left drawings they had made.
Five-year-old Ravza Çal visited her father's grave along with her 11-year-old sister.
She left a drawing of two big hearts and flowers by her father’s grave, she said.
Çal and her sister's father Kamil Çal was 33 when he died.
Although people under 20 have been under curfew for nearly two months to slow the spread of the COVID-19, the children of the Soma victims rushed to their fathers’ graves during a four-hour exemption on May 13.
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