Overview
- State and local officials confirmed that a sudden tornado struck a construction site in the Fevzi-Çakmak neighborhood of Kepez, Antalya, ripping apart a container that sheltered five workers.
- Four workers died and a fifth was injured and taken to hospital in stable condition, with two pronounced dead at the scene and two more dying later in hospital.
- Governor Hulusi Şahin visited the site, said a crane had toppled but that the deaths were not linked to the crane, and described the event as a tornado.
- Drone footage and social-media videos showed scattered iron and construction rubble across the site and damage to a nearby kindergarten roof, and police, fire and rescue teams carried out on-site response and damage assessments.
- Meteorology records show only a yellow warning for heavy rain was issued before the storm, and authorities have opened an investigation to examine the sudden formation of the vortex and warning procedures.