Taking to Twitter, PM Imran Khan stated, “We stand with the federal government and other people of Turkey and share of their sorrow on the tragic lack of life within the wildfires tragedy”.
The forest inferno on Turkey’s southern coast has claimed not less than 4 lives up to now, in line with a report revealed in Reuters.
Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan has stated that greater than 70 wildfires have damaged out that week in provinces on Turkey’s Aegean and Mediterranean coasts in addition to inland areas. Out of the 70, 14 had been nonetheless burning, he added.
In accordance with Reuters, firefighters had been battling blazes for a 3rd day on Friday after the evacuation of dozens of villages and a few resorts and tv footage has proven individuals fleeing throughout fields as fires closed in on their houses.