Turkey mine disaster Key Points (Bbc)

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3. James Reynolds BBC News, Turkey 
   tweets: Every few mins, crowd clears for paramedics to treat family members who have fainted. Soma hospital.
4. Leading Turkish unions are calling a nationwide one-day strike on Thursday in protest at working conditions in mines, following the Soma mine disaster, BBC Monitoring reports.
5. The Associated Press news agency is also quoting Turkey's prime minister as saying that the death toll in the mine disaster has risen to 232.
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   12:41: Turkish newspaper the Hurriyet Daily News 
   tweets: #UPDATE: Death toll climbs to 232 in #Soma coal mine disaster, #Turkish PM #Erdogan tells reporters

   
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1. Graeme Hanssen in Izmir, Turkey
   writes: Small but vociferous protests have broken out on various local campuses. The last time that happened was 12 months ago, during the major riots across the country over Gezi Park.
2. 12:25: 
   Thorbjorn Jagland, Secretary General of the Council of Europe, has expressed his condolences for Turkey in a statement, saying: "We are with our Turkish friends and share their sorrow."
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   Cynara Siddiqui, Istanbul 
   writes: I took this picture of a peaceful protest in Taksim Square earlier, reacting to the mining explosion and chanting that the government should quit.
1. Richard Moore, British Ambassador to Turkey 
   tweets: Thoughts and prayers this morning remain with the families of the dead and missing miners of #Soma. Terrible tragedy.
2. 12:13: 
   Pope Francis has asked people to pray for miners who died in the disaster, AP reports. He said: "Dear brothers, I invite you to pray for the miners who died yesterday in the Soma mine in Turkey and for those who are still trapped inside the tunnels. May the Lord receive the deceased and give comfort to their families."
3. 12:11: 
   Turkey's labour and social security ministry says the mine has been inspected five times since 2012 - including in March of 2014, according to the Associated Press news agency. The ministry said no issues violating work safety and security were detected.
1. 12:02: 
   Turkey's Hurriyet Daily News says the country's disaster response agency, AFAD, has published the names of 88 miners who were hospitalised after their rescue. It says 63 of them have been discharged while 25 are still being treated.
2. BBC World News presenter David Eades
   tweets: Turkey's Energy minister says mine have told him latest number of dead - but he does not want to say at this stage. Does not augur well.
1. 11:44: 
   BBC's James Reynolds, who is at the hospital in Soma, says relatives are outside waiting for news. "These relatives feel that the only place for them to be at the moment is here," he said. "All they are doing here is waiting."
2. 11:38: 
   There are growing fears that this could become Turkey's deadliest mining disaster, surpassing a 1992 gas explosion that killed 263 workers near the Black Sea port of Zonguldak.
1. Yegane Guley 
   tweets: Protests are taking place in Turkey due to the tragic mining accident.
2. 11:28: 
   Footballers from Turkey's Beşiktaş and Galatasaray football teams held a one minute silence before their training to mark the tragedy, reports the country's Hurriyet Daily News.
3. 11:26: 
   Russian President Vladimir Putin has sent condolences to Turkey for the Soma mine disaster, the RIA Novosti news agency reports. In a message to President Gul and Prime Minister Erdogan, he expresses condolences to the bereaved and wishes a speedy recovery to the injured, via BBC Monitoring.
4. BBC's Zeynep Erdim 
   tweets: People in tears, crying, fainting, holding each other, helping not to collapse around the hospital in Soma. #SomaMineAccident #Turkey
5. 10:59: 
   Reports now on social networking sites that protesters have gathered in Istanbul near the offices of Soma Holdings, which owns the mine.
6. 11:00: 
   Photographs now emerging of Turkey's Minister of Energy Taner Yildiz visiting the coal mine in Soma, the scene of the disaster.
CNN correspondent Ivan Watson 
tweets: Flag flying at half mast in Manisa province for 205 victims of coal mine disaster in Soma, Turkey. 100+ still missing
1. Emine Gulsen, part of a group of women who sat wailing near the entrance to the mine, chanted in song, "My son is gone, my Mehmet." She told the Associated Press agency that her son had been working in the mine for five years.
2. Associated Press correspondent in Turkey Desmond Butler 
   tweets: If you could see the faces of the volunteer rescue workers coming out of the Soma mine....Only dead bodies recovered now. A very sad scene.