The remaining five bodies of miners who were trapped under a flooded coal mine in the Ermenek district of Karaman were retrieved on Thursday.
The bodies of miners were sent to the forensic medicine institution in the district to be identified.
The Ermenek mine accident left 18 people trapped underground after the mine was flooded with water which could not be drained from one of the shafts in the mine.
Ermenek District Courthouse has ordered the arrest of five people who were referred to court over the accident which trapped the 18 miners for "involuntarily causing death by negligence."
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