Bodies of two trapped miners in central Turkey discovered

Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yıldız has announced that the bodies of two of the 18 trapped miners in a flooded mine in Central Anatolia have been discovered 10 days after the disaster, Hurriyet Daily News reports.

"[The bodies of] our brothers will be transfered to Ermenek State Hospital. DNA tests will be conducted with the families [for the identification of the bodies], if prosecutors agree with it," Yıldız said late Nov. 6, stating that the victims were found close to the spot where the miners were having lunch underground.

18 miners have been trapped since an Oct. 28 flooding deep inside a coal mine in the town of Ermenek in the Central Anatolian province of Karaman. The cause of the accident is yet to be determined.