Baku-APA. Three workers, two of them brothers, were killed on Tuesday after a landslide buried them underground at a pipe-laying site in the Yıldızeli district of Sivas, APA reports quoting Today's Zaman.
The workers, Kalender Ballı (40), Muhterem Ballı (38) and Murat Kıratlı (41) were laying pipe in a State Waterworks Authority (DSİ), project when a landslide occurred and trapped them. Rescue teams from the Prime Ministry's Disaster and Emergency Management Directorate (AFAD), firefighters and ambulances were immediately dispatched to the area.
After about an hour's search, rescue teams found the bodies of the workers.