Konya Governor Kayhan: Search - Rescue Activities Have Been Completed

KONYA - Konya Governor Ahmet Kayhan said on Wednesday that search and rescue activities that were carried out in the rubble of the collapsed building were completed.
Kayhan stated that they had ended search and rescue activities and the civil defense teams which came from Ankara and Afyon left the region.
''Totally 92 citizens died in the collapse of the building, one woman and one man among them could not be identified. We thank the teams which carried out their activities for 24 hours a day,'' he said.
''It is told that there are two missing persons, have they been found?'' asked journalists to Kayhan who said that ''they are probably the ones who are kept in morgue as they could not be identified.''
Kayhan said that the reports of the experts were not ready yet, adding that a statement would be issued about the collapse of the building when the report was finished.
(Öª-AÖ) 11.02.2004