Three children from a Turkish family died in an apartment fire in Dortmund on Aug. 3, 2012. Rescue teams found the bodies of 4-year-old Mustafa Tüfekçi and 12-year-old Dilan Tüfekçi, while 10-year-old Mehmet Tüfekçi was taken to the hospital with severe burns but later died of his injuries. Officials said there were strong indications the fire was the result of arson. In another deadly incident, nine Turks, including five children, were killed in a blaze in an apartment building in the western German city of Ludwigshafen on Feb. 5, 2008, an event considered the biggest fire in the post-World War II history of the city. All nine victims were immigrants from Turkey. Yet another notorious fire was part of a brutal attack in which Turks were targeted in the western city of Solingen in 1993 when a group of extreme rightist neo-Nazis set the homes of Turkish families ablaze, killing five members of one family.
Posted on: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 13:31:29 +0000
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