Ankara, Turkey: Turkish authorities on Thursday began investigating the causes of forest fires in the Turkish South Mediterranean and Aegean regions, including two nearby Pantai Manavgat resorts that killed three people and sent more than 50 to hospitals when houses were burned at home sick down.
Wildfire broke out Wednesday at Manavgat, in Antalya Province, and has been furnished by strong winds and hot temperatures, mostly contained, said Minister of Agriculture and the forestry of Pakdemirli.
But another fire that began to spend the night and swept the Akseki district, 50 kilometers (30 miles) north, made firefighter engaged.
Three people were killed in the fire, and the authorities evacuated almost 20 environments or villages.
Antalya Region is a popular vacation destination for tourists from Russia and other parts of Europe.
The fire also broke out Thursday in 16 other locations, including in the Icmeler area, close to Marmaris resorts, 320 kilometers (200 miles) in the west of Antalya, which briefly threatened the house and hotel.
A hotel at the Aegean Coastal Guitcinlik resort, near the city of Bodrum, also evacuated, said Pakdemirli.
Mehmet Oktay, Mayor of Marmaris, told NTV television that he could not rule out “ sabotage ” for the fire there, while Fahrettin Altun, Director of the Turkish President’s communication, said the ‘comprehensive investigation was …
launched into the cause of fire.
“Those responsible must take into account attacks on nature and forests,” said Altun Twitter.
Pakdemirli said a total of 53 forest fires were reported in the country on Wednesday and Thursday, but most of them had been controlled.
Three aircraft, 38 helicopters.
and about 4,000 firefighters were deployed to fight the Blazes, he said.
Forest fires often occur in the Mediterranean and Turkish Aegean regions during the summer months of Arid, although some of the previous forest fires have been blamed on combustion or banning Kurdish guerrillas.
Dead people on fire In Antalya, including a 82-year-old man in Kekezbeleni Akseki, where 80% of the house was burned, the district governor, said Anadolu.
The presidency of the Turkish government of disaster and emergency management, or Afad, said beside the three, at least 112 people were affected by fire including 58 treated in hospitals, mostly for smoke inhalation.
PI The authorities also saved 10 people stranded at a restaurant near Akseki.
Pakdemirli said more than 1,000 livestock killed while 1,500 hectares of agricultural land and 120 hectarouses agriculture destroyed in Manavgat.
He said 10 intensive intensive care patients at Manavgat State Hospital were transferred to other hospitals as precautions.
Patrizia below, who was on vacation in the Icmerler area, said he took a bath at sea with friends when he saw the fire lit on the mountain slope behind the residential area that swallowed air with smoke.
“ We came out of the sea and got into our car and left, `he said by telephone, when he was waiting for the authority to allow people back to their home.
Forest fires in South Turkey left 3 dead, 58 was hospitalized
