Aliağa16 Habaş steel workers are dead and 13 injured, President Erdoğan said.
Roughly 200 workers were on site for furnace replacement work, against 300-plus on regular shifts.
A ceiling crane collapsed into an electric arc furnace and damaged a natural gas line, the governor said.
Earlier counts of 3, 6 and 10 dead rose, and the mayor says the exact toll awaits cleared debris.
Turkey’s justice minister assigned 4 prosecutors, and Erdoğan promised to establish who was negligent.
How each outlet framed it
drawn from 300+ reports worldwide
- Anadolu Ajansı leans critical
- names the furnace-replacement work and the ceiling crane collapse that ruptured a gas line as the trigger, citing the governor
- Mehr News Agency leans critical
- The Independent leans critical
- describes the crane snapping into the arc furnace during liquid steel casting, with the 1,800C furnace temperature for scale
- News18 leans critical
- South China Morning Post leans critical
- gives the governor's toll revision step by step (one injured man died, plus two rubble recoveries) raising six dead
Sources: Anadolu Ajansı, Mehr News Agency, The Independent, News18, South China Morning Post