Turkish victims of German fire laid to rest

Nine people, including five children, who were killed last week in a fire in Ludwigshafen, Germany were laid to rest yesterday in their family home of Gaziantep, in Turkey's southeast. State Ministers Said Yazicioglu and Mehmet Simsek, German Ambassador to Turkey Eckart Cuntz, Gaziantep Governor Suleyman Kamci and thousands of people attended the funeral. Speaking in Turkish at the ceremony, Cuntz said that the tragic incident had brought people from Turkey and Germany together, and added, "These people were children of both Gaziantep and Ludwigshafen. I also see myself as the ambassador of Turks living in Germany."