Missing Turkish miners ‘swallowed by cyanide-laced landslide’

Hundreds of rescue workers searching for nine missing men in east of the country

Hundreds of Turkish rescue workers were searching through a cyanide-laced field for nine mine workers who were swallowed by a landslide that rolled over their open pit on Tuesday.

Images from the scene showed the landslide sweeping across a valley and crashing into a road where some of the workers were travelling by vehicle.