ISTANBUL (Reuters) - One worker was killed and four were trapped by an avalanche in Turkey's northeastern Trabzon region on Saturday following a week of vicious snow storms across the region, the disaster management agency (AFAD) said,
The five workers were repairing a broken generator in a construction site for a tunnel when the avalanche struck, AFAD spokesman Dogan Eskinat said. AFAD teams had recovered one body and the effort to rescue other people was underway.
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