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2 workers killed in landslide at dam construction site in western Turkey

Two construction workers died while two others were wounded after being trapped under debris in a landslide on May 22 at a dam construction site in northwest Turkey.

Eyüp Çatalbaş, 30, and Veli Gök died in hospital in Edirne province late May 23 after they were removed from the debris. Two other workers, İlker Karagedik and Mehmet Taneli, are still in hospital after they were rescued a day earlier from the landslide at the Hamzadere Dam construction site in the İpsala district of Edirne, close to Turkey’s border with Greece.

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