The death toll from forest fires near the northwestern Turkish city of Bursa has risen to four after two volunteer firefighters died.
The couple died in hospital after being pulled from a tanker truck that overturned on its way to the blaze, the IHA news agency reported.
Earlier, another worker died at the scene of the tragedy, and on Sunday a firefighter died of a heart attack.
Their deaths bring the total number of wildfire deaths in Turkey since late June to 17, including 10 volunteer rescuers and forestry workers killed in a blaze in Eskisehir in the west of the country on Wednesday.
Massive fires broke out around Bursa, Turkey's fourth-largest city, over the weekend, forcing more than 3,500 people to flee their homes.
On Monday morning, a hazy cloud of smoke hung over the city from ongoing fires and smoldering vegetation.
Unusually high temperatures for the season, dry conditions and strong winds are fuelling the spread of wildfires, with Turkey and other parts of the eastern Mediterranean experiencing record heatwaves.
The fires around Bursa are part of hundreds of blazes that have broken out across Turkey over the past month.
Although firefighters managed to contain damage to only a limited number of homes, large tracts of forest were destroyed.
The fire truck's crew was made up of volunteers from the neighbouring province of Bolu, who were heading to the village of Aglasan, northeast of Bursa, to fight a fire that broke out after the vehicle skidded off a rough forest road, IHA said.
Turkey's Forestry Minister Ibrahim Yumakli said on Sunday evening that at least 44 fires had been reported in the country.
Sourse: breakingnews.ie
