Investigations continue at the facility where a chemical leak occurred as a result of an armed attack in Samsun.

SAMSUN (AA) – Investigations are continuing at the recycling facility where a chemical leak occurred as a result of an armed attack in Samsun’s Tekkeköy district. U.G. from another workplace was sent to a recycling facility operating in the 19 Mayıs Industrial Site in the district. Many shots were fired with a gun. The bullets hit 4 1-ton tanks filled with chemical mixtures of solvent-thinner in the recycling facility.

Chemical substances began to flow into the workplace from the breached warehouses. Early in the morning, AFAD teams checked whether there was a leak with AP4C and GDA-2 detectors, and teams from the Provincial Directorate of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change examined whether the chemicals flowing from the damaged tanks were mixed into the water channel. Ömer Kargın, the owner of the attacked recycling facility, told the AA correspondent that the factory has been serving in the region as a licensed facility affiliated with the Ministry of Environment for approximately 15 years.

Kargın stated that they had previously been at odds with the owner of the neighboring factory that carried out the attack, and said, “Tekkeköy Municipality, the Provincial Directorate of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change, and SASKİ were constantly coming here due to their complaints. He complained about us.” We also complained about him for closing the area belonging to Tekkeköy Municipality and building a parking lot.

A lawsuit was filed against him. “He probably attacked us because he couldn’t feed them.” he said. – “We survived a great danger” Stating that the tanks were pierced in the attack and luckily the employees were not injured, Kargın said, “There are approximately 80-100 tons of thinner-based products and waste inside, thank God this place did not catch fire, otherwise there would not have been a shop left unburned here.

So we survived a great danger, good luck to our neighbors too. Of course, although we are not complaining, the incident is already a pretty big deal. AFAD and the Ministry of Environment are involved. “There will definitely be penalties for this, and I think these will be reflected on the other party.” he said.