The headman of Yukari Narlica village, one of the villages closest to the region where the avalanche disaster, which 41 people died in Van Bahcesaray, and went to the first support for search and rescue efforts, said that the authorities knew that the area in question was an avalanche, but they have not taken any precautions until today. Sadi Kaplan said, “The last year was an avalanche again in February. On February 5, while we were trying to search for two missing people in the van, we said to the people and staff waiting there, “Avalanche can come again”. ‘No. Once an avalanche fell. They will not come any more, “they said. According to me, the reason for the second avalanche disaster that happened in the last incident was due to the operation and voice of the big bucket there ”.
WHY HAPPENED
Explaining that he went to the field to save those who were under the first avalanche and worked with the search and rescue teams, the headman of the village of Yukari Narlica made the following statements:
“Then, on 5 February, the police station commander of our village said,” Get away from here, there may be an avalanche again. ” I also gathered the villagers and said, ekmek Bread, cheese, etc. to the officers. “Let’s go to the village to get it.” We arrived right in the village, they said, “The second avalanche has fallen, everyone is under avalanche.” We went to the avalanche area again. Three soldiers who were martyred under the second avalanche were working in the police station in our village. There were people coming from the village, Çatak region and many places from Van. If we did not go to the village to buy bread, we would be under an avalanche. For the two missing persons, they would open a new road in order to descend from the road to the stream, and it became an avalanche once the bucket was operated. Tunnel must be built in avalanche regions, or there will always be such disasters. I have not seen or heard anybody come here and do any control since at least since I was headman. ”
4 HOURS EXPENSED
Stating that there was an avalanche in the same area and avalanche last year, they were stranded on the other side of the stream for 4 hours. There is Karabet Pass, which is at a distance. There is no avalanche in that area because it is a passage. The avalanche falls to a place on the Bahcesaray side with the place where the disaster took place. No tunnels were built here. Only asphalt was built where the disaster was experienced. ”
THEY HAVE SAYED THE TWO YEARS
The discourse of two tunnels will be built in 2018 for Bahçesaray district of Van, which has been closed for months due to adverse weather conditions every year. With the project announced by the President of the President Gülşen Orhan as the “giant tunnel project” in February 2018, he said that the project guide plan was approved by the President in a very short time, the distance between Gevaş and Bahçesaray will decrease from 100 kilometers to 29 kilometers. . Speaking to the Republic, an official from Van Directorate of Highways stated that the ground works of the project are continuing.
DISCLAIMER NO DISASTER
The Van Bar Association stated the following statements in the statement made after the avalanche disaster: “The Van – Bahçesaray road has been continuously stated by all people and institutions that the road works carried out until today will not be sufficient due to the fact that the roads are closed due to snow, but the managers who equip many parts of the country with tunnels. it has not been able to produce permanent and effective solutions for this route.
The statement stated that search and rescue is not coordinated by competent hands.
TUNNEL SHOULD BE MADE FIRST
Sülhattin Aktaş, the village headman of Asagi Narlica said, “The road was extended a few years ago. I remember our elders, ‘I wish they had taken the road to the other side of the stream. “There is no avalanche there.” There was no study in the place where avalanche fell, we would have heard. Everything is obvious. A tunnel should be built there as soon as possible. ”
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