Baku/04.06.13/Turan 22-year-old Abdullah Comert died in hospital from gunshot wounds sustained during the unrest in the province of Hatay in southern Turkey, told CNN-Turk. He was wounded by a gunshot to disperse the demonstrators. This is the second victim of the riots in Turkey; previously killed was another young man, 20 year-old Mehmet Ayvalitas when a water-jet car crashed into a crowd of protesters in Istanbul.
According to the television channel CNN-Turk, the number of victims of the unrest has reached 3195 people, 25 of them in serious condition. The number of those arrested is unknown, but has exceeded 2,000.
Last night protests demanding the resignation of the government of Erdogan continued in many Turkish cities, including Ankara and Istanbul.
Protests in the capital increase gradually, and the tension rises. -02D-
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On October 28, Baku experienced rain once again. As with five days earlier, streets and homes in the capital flooded. Fortunately, unlike the previous incident, no fatalities occurred this time in waterlogged tunnels. (On October 22, two people drowned in a tunnel flooded with rainwater in Sabunchu district.)
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Two women have died from mushroom poisoning in the Khachmaz region, located 200 km north of Baku. According to Azar Magsudov, the head of the toxicology department at the Clinical Medical Center (CMC), the victims were 46 and 41 years old.
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