{"id":17549,"date":"2024-04-03T12:48:27","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T12:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/03\/fire-at-istanbul-nightclub-kills-dozens-during-renovation-work-state-media-says\/"},"modified":"2024-04-03T12:48:27","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T12:48:27","slug":"fire-at-istanbul-nightclub-kills-dozens-during-renovation-work-state-media-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/03\/fire-at-istanbul-nightclub-kills-dozens-during-renovation-work-state-media-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire at Istanbul nightclub kills dozens during renovation work, state media says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            At least 29 people have died in a blaze which started during daytime repair work at a nightclub in Istanbul, Turkey, state media reported Tuesday.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            A further eight people were injured, with seven of those in serious condition, the Istanbul governor\u2019s office said.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            The governor\u2019s office said the fire started in the Besiktas district in central Istanbul on the European side of the city, and that all of the victims were construction workers.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            The blaze started during renovations at the site, which is located underground, says Anadolu, the Turkish news state agency.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Turkish authorities have detained eight people in connection with the fire, including the business manager of the nightclub, its accountant a\ufeffnd partners, as well as the person responsible for the metal workers related to the renovation, TRT News reported.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Justice Minister Yilmaz Tunc said authorities were collecting evidence from the site.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            \u201cA team of 3 experts specializing in occupational safety and fire is also continuing their work to determine the cause of the fire,\u201d he wrote on X.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Ekrem Imamoglu, the mayor of Istanbul, sent his condolences on social media.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            \u201cMay God have mercy on our citizens who lost their lives,\u201d he wrote on X.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Imamoglu, of the opposition Republic People\u2019s Party (CHP), was re-elected as mayor on Sunday in local elections that marked the biggest election defeat to date for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan\u2019s Justice and Development (AK) Party.    <\/p>\n<div class=\"map\">\n<div class=\"map__container\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            <em>Umut Sevdi Tang\u00f6r in Istanbul\u00a0contributed to this report.<\/em>    <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 29 people have died in a blaze which started during daytime repair work at a nightclub in Istanbul, Turkey, state media reported Tuesday. A further eight people were injured, with seven of those in serious condition, the Istanbul governor\u2019s office said. The governor\u2019s office said the fire started in the Besiktas district in <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17550,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17549","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}