While rain showers are seen in the city center of Erzincan, the snow and the type continue to affect the high parts. Towards the end of May, vehicles without winter tires in the high altitude Kızıldağ, Sakaltutan and Ahmediye Passages, which were experienced in black winter, were able to advance by wearing a chain. Highway teams are also doing intermittent snow plowing and salting on the routes.
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The body of Süleyman Akpolat (70), who is thought to be caught in a snow storm in the village of Koçyatağı, where snow and its type were effective, was found frozen. When Akpolat, who went to the plateau to graze the sheep from his village on the Erzincan-Sivas Highway, was not heard for a long time, the situation was reported to the security forces. As a result of the searches, the frozen body of Akpolat was found by the gendarmerie in the creek bed near Beşgözeler locality at night. The body of Akpolat was removed from the hospital morgue for the autopsy after the examination of the public prosecutor. IHA
