Fire Leaves Five Dead, Dozens Injured in Turkey’s Diyarbakir, Mardin
The Turkish interior minister reveals that the fire began late Thursday in an area approximately 30 kilometers south of Diyarbakir, spreading rapidly due to strong winds and impacting five villages.
Five individuals have died and numerous were injured – ten in critical condition – as a result of the wildfires that went ablaze in villages in southeastern Turkey’s Diyarbakir and Mardin regions overnight, according to the Turkish health minister on Friday.
As the summer approaches, temperatures are already on a skyrocketing incline, leaving wildfires as a matter of time – not if, but when.
That was followed by a post from Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya who explained that the fire broke out late Thursday in an area approximately 30 kilometers south of Diyarbakir, before spreading rapidly due to strong winds and impacting five villages.
Health Minister Fahrettin Koca posted on X: “Five people lost their lives and 44 were injured, with 10 in critical condition,” adding that four emergency teams and 35 ambulances were dispatched to the affected areas.
“Unfortunately three citizens of the Diyarbakir area and two in the Mardin area lost their lives,” he wrote on X.
