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One rescued, one still missing in Antalya floods
Türktaş and Dolapçı spent seven hours waiting in the tree while boats from the Coast Guard Command capsized as rescue teams tried to reach the stranded men. Finally, a boat rented by a group of Türktaş’s friends was able to reach the tree, but by the time the boat reached the tree, Dolapçı was nowhere in sight. Türktaş was rescued and brought to the hospital by ambulance. The search for the second man is ongoing.
Münevver Dolapçı, Mustafa Dolapçı’s aunt, said that when Türktaş was rescued he was in a state of shock and kept saying, “I’m freezing.” A group of Dolapçı’s relatives reportedly protested the authorities’ failure to reach the two men in time to save both of them -- and for not being the ones to reach the men at all. Münevver Dolapçı said that Mustafa Dolapçı had called them around 11:45 p.m. from his cell phone and told them that they had been caught in a flash flood and were stranded in a tree and needed help. She explained that the family was later unable to reach him via the cell phone and traveled as near to the region as they could.
Ahmet Müftüoğlu, one of the group of friends who traveled to Alanya to try to save the men, said that they sprung into action as soon as they heard what had happened, traveling to Taşağıl at 5 a.m. to rent a boat, which they then used to recover Türktaş. Dolapçı wasn’t in the tree when they arrived at the scene, he said.
Meanwhile, another 17 people were rescued by helicopter from fields and other areas affected by floods in the region, six of them children. In a statement, Antalya Governor Alaaddin Yüksel said authorities had closed both directions of the Antalya-Manavgat road due to the flooding, but some motorists had tried to drive through the area anyways. He said these were the circumstances in which the vehicle that Türktaş and Dolapçı had been traveling in got caught in the floodwaters.
Meanwhile, the heavy rainstorms also led to the flooding of fields and the loss of some domesticated and farm animals. As a precaution, some families sent their children away to stay with relatives farther from the storm-affected areas in case their homes were flooded.
Aegean region hit by torrential rain
Western Turkey has also been battered by heavy rainfall over the past three days. Many reservoirs and streams flooded their banks in the region, and houses and workplaces were inundated. The İzmir Meteorology Directorate has announced that İzmir received the heaviest rainfall of the last four years.
A number of houses and workplaces were also flooded in the Fethiye, Dalaman and Ortaca districts of Muğla province. Heavy rains have also struck Çanakkale, Denizli and Aydın. Almost all houses in the village of Çepnidere in Manisa’s Turgutlu district were inundated when a river passing through the village flooded its banks.
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