Dead Duck Draws Dad to Death in Duck Pond, in Balıkesir

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(Cumhuriyet Newspaper, 23 January 2022)

Duck hunting incident leaves one boy fatherless...

Yesterday evening in İvrindi district of Balıkesir province, Şemsettin 

Günhan, Cihan Yazıcı and Fevzi Sönmez went duck hunting at a 

nearby pond.  Günhan, the married father of one child, shot a duck. 

Günhan entered the pond to retrieve the dead duck but went underwater,

to the horror of his friends.  In an effort to save Günhan, Yazıcı and 

Sönmez went into the pond too but Sönmez suffered hypothermia and

both he and Yazıcı had to be taken to İvrindi State Hospital for treatment.

...and some other youngsters motherless. 

Meanwhile, AFAD (search & rescue) and the Balikesir municipal 

water search team reached the pond to look for Günhan, whose lifeless

body was retrieved at 1300 hours.  The body was taken to the Bursa

police forensics lab for an autopsy.