By Merlyn Thomas & Elsa Maishman, BBC News
A coal miner during the search and rescue efforts to reach miners trapped underground, Bartin, Turkey. Photo: AFP/ Omer Urer
Forty-one people have died following an explosion in a coal mine in northern Turkey, the country's president says.
The discovery of the final missing body brings the rescue operation to an end, more than 20 hours after Friday's deadly blast.
Earlier the interior minister said 58 people working in the mine when the blast went off were rescued or got out by themselves.
Suleyman Soylu said 10 people remained in hospital and one was discharged.
Around 110 people were in the mine in northern Turkey at the time of Friday's blast, almost half of them at more than 300m deep.
Smoke billowing from the mine and ambulances lined up on standby for the coal miners trapped under the rubble at the explosion site, during the search and rescue operation. Photo: AFP/ Utku Ucrak
Emergency crews had worked through the night, digging through rock to try to reach survivors.
Video footage showed miners emerging blackened and bleary-eyed accompanied by rescuers at the facility in Amasra, on the Black Sea coast.
Family and friends of the missing could also be seen at the mine, anxiously awaiting news of their loved ones.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited the site in Bartin province, along with other ministers, and confirmed the final missing person had been found dead.
Authorities said Turkish prosecutors had launched an investigation into the cause of the explosion but initial indications were that the blast was caused by firedamp, a term referring to methane forming an explosive mixture in coal mines.
It is thought the explosion was about 300m deep. At the time, some 49 people were working in the "risky" zone between 300 and 350m underground, Soylu said.
Energy Minister Fatih Donmez said there were partial collapses inside the mine, but no ongoing fires, and ventilation was working properly.
Amasra's mayor Recai Cakir said many of those who survived had suffered "serious injuries".
One worker who managed to escape on his own said: "There was dust and smoke and we don't know exactly what happened."
The mine belongs to the state-owned Turkish Hard Coal Enterprises.
Turkey witnessed its deadliest coal mining disaster in 2014, when 301 people died after a blast in the western town of Soma.
-BBC
