A fire caused by a transformer explosion in a coal mine in western Turkey has left 232 people dead. | Soma, Turkey (CNN) — As a crowd milled around with downcast eyes outside a coal mine in western Turkey on Wednesday, a miner dashed their hopes that his co-workers still stuck inside would make it out alive. | There are 200 of them trapped in a shaft about two-thirds of a mile — or 1 kilometer — underground, disaster officials have said. But many miners are missing, so the number could be much higher.
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