ISTANBUL: A landslide on Tuesday trapped at least nine workers at a gold mine in eastern Turkiye, officials said, adding that search and rescue efforts were underway.
“At least nine people are trapped,” Erzincan province mayor Bekir Aksun was quoted as saying by the private NTV broadcaster.
Images from the scene showed the landslide sweeping across a valley where the workers were believed to have been based at the time.
Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya confirmed that there was no initial news from nine workers.
JERUSALEM: Israel’s spy chief was headed to Cairo Tuesday for talks with his Egyptian and US counterparts on a Gaza truce proposal, Israeli officials told AFP, as discord mounts over the war.
Mossad director David Barnea will meet CIA chief William Burns, Israeli officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the discussions.
They will be joined in the Egyptian capital by Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani, who also serves as the country’s top diplomat and has brokered previous Gaza ceasefires.