ISTANBUL: A woman and her five young children died when a fire ripped through containers housing agricultural workers near the southwestern Antalya resort, the regional governor said Friday.
Anadolu state news agency said the woman was pregnant.
The deaths occurred as Turkiye began marking the three-day Bayram holiday to mark the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.
Antalya Governor Hulusi Sahin said the fire ripped through several containers where greenhouse workers were living in Kepez, just north of Antalya.
“Three containers caught fire, and we lost a mother and five children aged between four and nine,” he told reporters standing in front of the charred remains of a container and a burned-out car.
