Bad weather kills four, paralyzes life in Turkey

A landslide killed two people in Yağlıdere town of the northern province of Giresun, while another person survived the landslide with serious injuries.

Also in another northern province, Trabzon, two people died as they were stuck under the rubble of their house due to a landslide, triggered by heavy rainfall.

"We have evacuated 26 houses as a precaution," Trabzon's Governor Recep Kızılcık said.

Turkey's Public Works and Housing Minister Mustafa Demir and Transportation Minister Binali Yıldırım flew to Trabzon after heavy rain and snowfall and landslide claimed lives and stranded people in the region.

On Mount Ovit in the northeastern province of Rize, a van carrying 18 people including university students was stranded due to heavy snowfall and avalanche.

"The van was stuck as it used a road closed to traffic during winter times," Transportation Minister Binali Yıldırım told reporters as he went to the area.

Yıldırım, who monitored search and rescue development on the Mount Ovit, told reporters after midnight that the teams reached the 18 people who were stranded in a van for more than a day.

"They are all in stable condition, and in a good mood," Yıldırım said.

On Sunday morning, 17 passengers and the driver of the van walked almost two kilometers to reach the area where the highway teams were located to help them.

Professional mountaineers accompanied the 18 stranded people and brought them to the area where highway teams were.

Thus, 18 people were rescued 39 hours after they were stranded.

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