Several countries came to the aid of South Cyprus following an appeal to tackle a huge wildfire in Limassol District, but offers of help from neighbouring North Cyprus were ignored, much to the disappointment of Turkish Cypriots. The fire broke out in the village of Arakapas on Saturday afternoon and quickly spread across forest in […]
A wild fire that broke out by a village in northwest Cyprus earlier today has quickly spread, threatening thousands of acres of forest and other settlement areas. There has been no reported loss of life, but the fire has scorched the forests around Tepebaşı, Akdeniz, Kalkanlı, and Koruçam (also known as Kormacit) in the Turkish […]
Two elderly patients died as they were being evacuated from Lefkoşa Dr. Burhan Nalbantoğlu State Hospital this morning following the outbreak of a serious fire in the Cardiology Department. The authorities confirmed the fatalities were Asım Uyguroğlu, aged 74, and 62-year-old Erdoğan Kalaycılar. Uyguroğlu, who had been in intensive care, passed away at Near East […]
A major fire in the dormitory of a boarding school in southern Turkey has claimed at least a dozen lives this evening. It is believed 28 students aged 12 and 13 years old and various staff were inside the building at the time the fire took hold. The blaze broke out at the private junior […]
Turkey is battling a major fire in the Kumluca district of Antalya. People have been evacuated away from the path of the two-day old fire, which has spread to the resort town of Adrasan and Çıralı village, and entered the Beydağları Coastal National Park that contains the historic Olympos (Lycia) site. İsmail Üzmez, head of […]
The TRNC and Turkey are set to join Greek Cypriots and an international emergency team battling against a devastating blaze in the Troodos Mountains. The fire broke out in Evrychou (Evrihu), a village in the foothills of Troodos six miles away from Lefke in the TRNC and 31 miles southwest of Nicosia, on Sunday. Police […]
