Police, fire brigade and health teams were sent to the region upon the notification that two children around the irrigation canal passing through the Malatya Sugar Factory land fell into the canal.
Despite the intervention, the Syrian national DG (2), who was removed from the canal by the citizens and officials staying in the tent cities inside the factory, could not be saved in Malatya Training and Research Hospital.
The teams continue their search and rescue efforts for the other child, who is stated to be in the canal.
Malatya Metropolitan Municipality Fire Department Head Mustafa Katipoğlu noted that the people around said there was another child in the canal, and that the teams continued to work in this direction.