Fifteen people died and eight were injured - seven of them seriously - in a fire that broke out in the basement of a sixteen-story residential building in Istanbul. This is what a summary of the tragedy released by the governor's office communicates. "The number
of people who lost their lives in the fire in the Gayrettepe district has now reached fifteen, and eight people were injured, seven of them seriously," the authorities said in a statement.
According to what was reported by state TV TRT, the fire broke out in an apartment building in Gayrettepe, a neighborhood on the European side of Istanbul and the flames would have affected two basement floors of a residential building in the city. The Minister of the Interior, Ali Yerlikaya, said that an investigation has been opened to determine the causes of the fire.
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