Forest Fire That Killed 15 Is Quelled in Turkey
Associated Press
ISTANBUL, Turkey —
Firefighters put out a forest fire on Sunday that killed 14 soldiers and a forest ranger who were trapped while battling the flames, Turkey’s semiofficial Anatolia news agency reported.
The fire, which broke out Friday, burned 2,450 acres of forest around the village of Davutlar, the agency said. The area is about six miles southeast of Kusadasi, an Aegean Sea resort that draws thousands of foreign tourists, especially British and French. Kusadasi was not threatened by the fire.
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