Fresh wildfires engulf Turkey as 1,500 flee their homes and firefighter dies days after raging blazes killed 13
TURKEY INFERNO Fresh wildfires engulf Turkey as 1,500 flee their homes and firefighter dies days after raging blazes killed 13
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TURKEY has been ravaged by fresh wildfires with over 1,500 civilians forced to flee their homes.
A firefighter has died as they battled the rising flames which come amid a number of terrifying and deadly fires breaking out across the country.
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Flames rise as firefighting efforts continue in Orhaneli district of Bursa
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Civilians run for their lives as the flames threaten to take over residential areas
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Flames rise from a forested area in the Gursu district
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Homes have been engulfed by flames
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Residents in Bursa were alerted of the serious fires early on Sunday.
Flames first broke out in forested mountainous areas in northwest Turkey as they rapidly spread across the region.
The Bursa governor's office said in a statement that 1,765 people had been safely evacuated from villages to the northeast.
More than 1,100 firefighters have been drafted in to help save those still trapped and to extinguish the flames.
Fears are also surrounding the highway linking Bursa to the capital of Ankara after it was closed on Sunday amid the fires burning through the surrounding woodlands.
The flames have scorched 7,413 acres around the city so far, according to the city's mayor, Mustafa Bozbey.
Orhan Saribal, a local MP in the province, described the scene as an apocalypse.
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