A woman mourns at the graves for miners who died in a fire at a coal mine, at a cemetery in Soma, a district in Turkey's western province of Manisa May 20, 2014. REUTERS/ Osman Orsal
SOMA Turkey (Reuters) - Several thousand workers stayed away on Tuesday from mines run by a company at the centre of Turkey's worst industrial disaster, with the main labour union demanding strict site inspections.
Three hundred and one miners died last week after a fire in a mine in Soma, a small town 480 km (300 miles) southwest of Istanbul, fuelling anger in a nation which has long had one of the world's worst workplace safety records.
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