Dozens of Turkish rescue workers are missing after being hit by an avalanche in eastern Turkey while on a mission to find two other people missing in a previous avalanche.
ANKARA, Turkey — Dozens of Turkish rescue workers were missing Wednesday after being hit by an avalanche in eastern Turkey while on a mission to find two other people missing in a previous avalanche.
The emergency services were called to a highway near the mountain-surrounded town of Bahcesehir, in Van province, which borders Iran, after an avalanche struck late Tuesday. The second avalanche struck Wednesday as 300 emergency workers were searching for the two missing victims, private NTV television reported.The workers were on the mountain Wednesday after five people were killed in an avalanche that hit a highway.
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