Watch: Clock tower falls as storm rips through Istanbul
As of Monday evening Turkish authorities had reported four deaths and dozens of injuries.
At least four people are dead and dozens injured after a heavy storm battered Istanbul and its surrounding provinces on Monday, toppling a clock tower and causing extensive damage across swaths of Turkey’s biggest city.
Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca confirmed the casualties on Twitter, adding that 38 people were injured as of Monday evening. Injuries and material damage was also reported in the northwestern cities of Bolu and Bursa, he said.
One of the victims died in Istanbul’s Esenyurt district after a torn-off roof fell on the woman and her child, who reportedly survived. A construction worker in the province of Zonguldak in Turkey’s Black Sea region was crushed under a collapsing wall.
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