YENİ Party delegation visits Girne disaster site: “They knowingly killed us”
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- A YENİ Party delegation visited injured survivors in hospital after a vessel capsized off Girne, killing eight people.
- Survivors said the vessel’s officials ignored warnings to return to port and blamed negligence for the disaster.
Survivors of the vessel disaster off Girne said officials ignored warnings to return to port, as a YENİ Party delegation visited them in hospital.
The vessel capsized off Girne, killing eight people and injuring others. Members of the delegation also spoke with people who witnessed the disaster and heard accounts of the moments before the vessel overturned.
Let's return to the port.
Survivors said they had warned the vessel’s officials, “Let’s return to the port,” but that their warnings went unheeded. They reacted angrily to what they described as negligence, with one account summarized as: “They knowingly killed us.”
They knowingly killed us.
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Originally published by Cumhuriyet in Turkish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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