Despite the father's efforts to save the family, a fire in northwest Turkey killed a mother, her six children, and two nephews on Wednesday, according to officials and the media. According to officials, the fire broke out at an apartment in Bursa just before midnight on Tuesday, where a Syrian refugee family who had been living in Turkey since 2017 had just moved in a month and a half earlier. According to local media, the mother, her six children, ages one to ten, and two nephews, ages 11 and 12, were all inside the apartment when the fire broke out. According to the Anadolu news agency, the father tried to save people inside after arriving home late from a funeral in Istanbul but was overtaken by smoke. "Inside, there are nine bodies. Eight of them are kids," said Yakup Canbolat, the regional governor of Bursa, according to Anadolu. Alinur Aktas, the mayor of the city, claimed in a tweet that a wood-burning stove inside the flat was most likely to blame for the incident. Since the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War in 2011, 3.7 million Syrian refugees have sought asylum in Turkey.
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