Landslide in Tent Area of Agricultural Workers: 2 Syrian Children Die, 2 Children Wounded

* Photograph: Anadolu Agency (AA)

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Two children have lost their lives and two children have been wounded in a landslide in the district of Ereğli in Turkey's central anatolian province of Konya. The landslide hit the stream bed in Aziziye Neighborhood where seasonal agricultural workers from Syria set up their tents.

Trapped under the soil, Abdurrahman Abdi (7) and Ali Berkel (8) have lost their lives and Muhammet Berkel (12) and Riyad Abdi (11) have been wounded. The wounded have been hospitalized in Ereğli Public Hospital. They reportedly do not have a risk of death.

Safety measures have been taken around the area.

70 refugee/immigrant workers died in the first 7 months

The July 2019 report of the Laborers' Health and Occupational Safety (İSİG) Assembly shows that 70 refugee/immigrant workers lost their lives in occupational homicides in the first seven months of this year.

The report has also shared information regarding the refugees and migrants who lost their lives in occupational homicides in the last six years:

• In 2013, 22 immigrants/refugees (2 percent)
• In 2014, 53 immigrants/refugees (3 percent)
• In 2015, 67 immigrants/refugees (4 percent)
• In 2016, 96 immigrants/refugees (5 percent)
• In 2017, 88 immigrants/refugees (4 percent)
• In 2018, 110 immigrants/refugees (6 percent)
• In the first seven months of 2019, 70 immigrants/refugees (7 percent)

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Accordingly, of the 1,004 workers who lost their lives in the first seven months, 26 workers were from Syria, 23 workers from Afghanistan, four workers from Turkmenistan, four workers from Ukraine, three workers from Uzbekistan, two from Azerbaijan, two from Iran, two from Georgia, one from Czechia, one from Italy, one from Colombia and one from Russia.

The most frequent causes of death were explosion/burning, being poisoned/suffocated or drowned, traffic/service bus accident, being crushed/trapped under debris and falling from a higher place. While six of the deceased workers were children, nine of them were women. (AÖ/SD)