After returning from a coffeehouse, Mehmet Kepkin broke the back door of his home since he did not hear any voices inside and discovered a tragic scene. His wife, Vahide Kepkin (54), and grandchildren, Sevda Kepkin (15), Nihat Kepkin (8), Abdullah Kepkin (10) and Mahsun Gerçek (8), were lifeless on the floor. Mehmet Kepkin called the police and an ambulance rushed to the scene.It was reported that four of the family members had died by the time the ambulance arrived, with one person being rushed to the hospital, where said person later died. All of the bodies were brought to the private Sancaktepe Hospital morgue.
Sevda, Nihat and Abdullah Kepkin’s mother and father, Meysel and Nezir Kepkin, and Mahsun Gerçek’s mother and father, Çiçek Gerçek and Cem Gerçek, were reportedly attending a wedding in Siirt.
Meanwhile, three people in the Kiraz district of İzmir were poisoned by smoke from a bucket of burning coal that they placed in a minibus to keep them warm while sleeping on Friday. Ümit Sarı, the son of Turhan Sarı, who died at a hospital in İzmir, asked his friend Barattin Erdem (34) to drive his deceased father’s corpse to the funeral home. Erdem, his friend Bünyamin Aydoğan (29) and the father-in-law of Ümit Sarı, Dursun Topalak (48), brought the corpse to the Kiraz district. As the funeral home was crowded, the three people decided to sleep in the vehicle. In order to stay warm, they brought some coal from a coal-burning heater in the house and put it in a bucket. They placed the bucket into the minibus where they fell asleep. The smoke from the coal killed them during the night.
