{"id":81012,"date":"2024-06-22T17:35:59","date_gmt":"2024-06-22T17:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/22\/12-killed-and-dozens-injured-in-kurdish-south-easst\/"},"modified":"2024-06-22T17:35:59","modified_gmt":"2024-06-22T17:35:59","slug":"12-killed-and-dozens-injured-in-kurdish-south-easst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/22\/12-killed-and-dozens-injured-in-kurdish-south-easst\/","title":{"rendered":"12 killed and dozens injured in Kurdish south-easst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">A huge wildfire in Kurdish parts of south-eastern Turkey has killed at least 12 people.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Announcing the death toll on X, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said 78 people had also been wounded when flames spread through Diyarbakir and Mardin provinces.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Hundreds of animals have died in the fire, which began on Thursday and raged into Friday.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Temperatures in much of Turkey have reached over 40C (104F) in the past week, leaving forest and scrubland tinder-dry. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">An investigation into the cause of the latest blaze is under way.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya blamed it on &#8220;stubble burning&#8221;, the practice of intentionally setting fire to crop residue.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">It is not the first time the southern region has been devastated by fire &#8211; in the summer of 2021 flames ravaged coastal resorts and claimed nine lives.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c4nn19wv02vo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A huge wildfire in Kurdish parts of south-eastern Turkey has killed at least 12 people. Announcing the death toll on X, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}