Four children die as rain collapses house

The roof of the adobe house caved in as seven members of the Tekik family were inside in a village in Diyarbakır, a local source told Agence France Presse. The parents of the four children survived without any injuries, while an elder brother Kerem Tekin survived with heavy injuries and was hospitalized at Dicle University Hospital. The bodies of the four siblings Zilan, Edanur, Rozerin and Ayşe were taken to state hospitals for autopsies. The goods in the house were moved to a room in the lodging of the village school.

Governor Sezer Işıktaş said he would go to the village to support the family. Last month in Istanbul’s Gültepe neighborhood, a shanty house collapsed because a sustaining wall above the house collapsed over its roof, killing one child.