Ankara, Turkey (AP) – three more Turkish soldiers are dead by Methano gas poisoning Following a cave search operation in North Iraq, the Minister of Turkey Defense said Monday, bringing death of death to eight. Soldiers were looking for the removed removed the solid killed by kurdic military.
Troops looked for a mountain cave when 19 of them were exposed to the gas, according to the ministry. Five of the soldiers muted by a colorless gas, odorless, calculamm mergammally that may cause asphyxiation in sufficient, and three more succumbed on Monday.
“We pray God’s mercy of our erected tuesday they lost their lives, expressing hope that have been affected to do other troops that have been affected.
The Ministry has said Optional “region” – a reference to a reference of Kurdistan workers, or pkk, in the Northern Iraq in 2022.
Turkey and the pkk have greeting a The conflict of 40 years that often spilled in Iraq and Syria. Turkey installed a series of bases in the Northern Iraq, where the PKK has been set to decades.
The pkk, which is considered a terrorist organization for Turkey and most Western, Announced in May that would disnew the armed conflict as part of a new Peace starting With Turkey.
Their fighters are expected to start dragging their weapons in the next few days in the first time of concrete toward the disarmament.
According to the Ministry, the turbic unit is landing the methan gas had the remains of an infantry office “in the 2022. IQUEMIE was run to the area for the past three years.
The cave where the incident is at the altitude of 852 meters (2.795 feet) and had been used by the pkk as a camp hospital.