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Turkey puts eight mine chiefs on trial over Soma tragedy

Turkish prosecutors demand that former mine managers spend the rest of their lives in jail for deaths of 301 workers in 2014
A woman mourns at the Soma cemetery where miners killed in the worst industrial accident in Turkey's history are buried in Manisa on 12 April, 2015 (AFP)
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