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Minister: Five dead and dozens injured in forest fires in southeastern Turkey

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Five people died and dozens were injured, ten of them seriously, when forest fires swept through several villages in Kurdish southeastern Turkey during the night, the health minister said on Friday.

“Five people died and 44 were injured, ten of them seriously,” Health Minister Fahrettin Koca wrote on X, formerly Twitter.

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Five people died and dozens were injured, ten of them seriously, when forest fires swept through several villages in Kurdish southeastern Turkey during the night, the health minister said on Friday.

“Five people died and 44 were injured, ten of them seriously,” Health Minister Fahrettin Koca wrote on X, formerly Twitter.

Images posted on social media showed a massive fire lighting up the night sky and emitting huge clouds of smoke.

Koca said four emergency teams and 35 ambulances were sent to the scene.

Separately, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said the fire broke out late Thursday in an area about 30 kilometers south of Diyabakir and spread quickly due to strong winds, affecting five villages.

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“Unfortunately, three citizens from the Diyarbakir area and two from the Mardin area lost their lives,” he wrote on X.

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