International News Safety Institute

12 November 2011

Sebahattin Yilmaz

Incident

Two journalists killed in Turkey quake

Cause of death

Other accident

Details

Two journalists from Turkey's Dogan News Agency died after being trapped under the rubble of a hotel in Van which collapsed during last Wednesday's earthquake in the east of the country.

Witnesses say 26-year-old Cem Emir and 58-year-old Sebahattin Yilmaz were transmitting a news story in the lobby of the Bayram hotel when the quake hit. They had been covering the aftermath of a 7.2 magnitude earthquake that struck the area of Van last month, killing more than 600 people.

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