{"id":21298,"date":"2024-06-21T09:21:33","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T09:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=21298"},"modified":"2024-06-21T09:23:21","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T09:23:21","slug":"five-dead-dozens-hurt-in-wildfires-in-southeastern-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2024\/06\/five-dead-dozens-hurt-in-wildfires-in-southeastern-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Five dead, dozens hurt in wildfires in southeastern Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; At least five people have been killed and dozens hurt as wildfires swept through several villages in southeastern Turkey, ministers said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Health Minister Fahrettin Koca reported the deaths from the overnight blaze between the cities of Diyarbakir and Mardin on Friday. Forty-four people were injured, 10 of them in a serious condition, he said on X.<\/p>\n<p>The fire started with the burning of crop stubble. Fanned by winds, it moved quickly through the villages of Koksalan, Yazcicegi and Bagacik.<\/p>\n<p>Images posted on social media showed a huge blaze lighting up the night sky with vast clouds of smoke billowing into the air.<\/p>\n<p>Four emergency teams and 35 ambulances were sent to the scene. By Friday, firefighters had managed to bring the blaze under control, according to Diyarbakir Governor Ali Ihsan Su.<\/p>\n<p>Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said the fire started late on Thursday in an area 30km (18 miles) south of Diyabakir and quickly spread due to strong winds, affecting five villages.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, across the country in northwestern Turkey, firefighters were battling to contain a wildfire near the town of Ayvacik in Canakkale province, according to the state-run Anadolu Agency.<\/p>\n<p>No one was hurt but authorities evacuated the small village of Camkoy as a precaution, the agency reported.<\/p>\n<h6><strong><em>SOURCE AL JAZEERA<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; At least five people have been killed and dozens hurt as wildfires swept through several villages in southeastern Turkey, ministers said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":21306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,982,30,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-international","category-environment","category-headline"],"views":40,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21298"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21309,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21298\/revisions\/21309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}