US EditionTwo Children Among Three Dead in Turkey Tower Block Fire
- On June 5, 2025, a fire erupted in a high-rise residential building with 13 floors in Diyarbakir, Turkey, resulting in several deaths.
- The fire started around 6:30 pm local time on the eve of Turkey's Eid al-Adha celebrations, according to local officials and the Diyarbakir governor.
- Rescuers evacuated 38 people, including a baby, from the building using basket cranes while fierce flames and intense smoke hampered efforts.
- Four people died, including a mother and three children from the same family, and 17 wounded were hospitalized, with ten still in hospital by nightfall.
- Authorities brought the fire under control by nightfall, confirmed no one remained inside, and pledged to hold accountable anyone found negligent.
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Last night 10 people continued to be hospitalized - The fire was extinguished
Two children and an adult lost their lives in the fire which covered a 13-stage building in Diyarbakir, in the south-east with the Kurdish majority of Turkey, reported to the local authorities, notes AFP, according to Agerpres.
Justice Minister Tunç made a statement regarding the fire in Diyarbakır where 3 children and their mothers died: The investigation is being carried out meticulously
Three children among four dead in Turkey tower block fire
Three children and an adult died Thursday when a fire broke out in a 13-storey apartment block in Diyarbakir, the main city in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority southeast, local officials said. Diyarbakır Governor Murat Zorluoglu said the fire began around 6:30 pm (1530 GMT) on the eve of Turkey’s Eid al-Adha celebrations. “Seventeen wounded people were transferred to hospital for treatment but unfortunately three of them died, two of them children,” he…
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