Selcan Hacaoglu
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/ 5 January 2006

Bird flu claims second teenager in Turkey

A Turkish teenager whose brother died of bird flu also succumbed to the disease on Thursday, a Turkish doctor said, as authorities tried to determine if the siblings had contracted the worrisome H5N1 strain of the virus. If confirmed, the brother and sister would be the first people outside of Asia to die of the H5N1 strain in the latest outbreak.

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/ 8 September 2004

Nineteen die in Turkish tunnel fire

A fire that raged through a copper mine in northern Turkey killed 19 workers and injured 17 others on Wednesday. Rescuers were searching the smoke-clogged shafts to make sure that no one was left inside. The fire broke out inside the mine in the town of Kure in Kastamonu province, trapping about 30 workers.