Turkey: tornado kills at least four workers at Antalya construction site

Four construction workers were killed and a fifth injured when a sudden tornado struck a building site in Antalya, southern Turkey , late on Monday. The violent winds hurled two accommodation containers into the air and brought down a tower crane . Two workers died at the scene and two others in hospital , according to the governor's office. The falling crane caused no casualties . Governor Hulusi Şahin described the tornado, which struck the Kepez district , as "an exceptionally localised phenomenon" . No similar weather was reported elsewhere in the city. The same weather system brought torrential downpours to Istanbul , flooding streets in Pendik and Tuzla .