At least 4 people were killed and nineteen were injured in the attack Constantinople earlier today due to bad weather affecting the area.
“Four people, including a foreign national, were killed and 19 of our fellow citizens were injured, three of them seriously,” the Istanbul government said in a press release, citing a report by the government’s Disaster Management Agency (Afad).
A video broadcast by the Turkish news agency DHA shows two men and a pram on the ground, under the debris building, as if preceded by an explosion, in the Essenyurt district, in the western part of Istanbul.
A woman was killed in another district in the western part of Istanbul, after being hit in the face by a beam, which detached from the roof of the apartment building where he lived, according to DHA and as transmitted by ΑΠΕ ΜΠΕ.
Problems in coastal shipping and air transport
The mayor of Istanbul Ekrem Imamoglou expressed its condolences to the families of the victims, while calling on the residents of the city to be careful, in the face of the risk of similar accidents, with the “fall of trees and beams”, which cause winds whose speed reaches 130 kilometers per hour.
Other images posted on social media and broadcast by Turkish media show one roof and one part of a balcony be swept away by strong winds as well trucks to have been overturned on an avenue near Istanbul.
Dozens of roofs and almost 200 trees were uprooted due to the storm and maritime transport was suspended in Bosphorus, also became known by the municipal authority.
Five planes to land in Istanbul change direction to airports Anchor and her Σμύρνης, for its part, broadcasts the NTV television network.
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