Former public officials in court over hotel collapse which killed 35 Cypriots

Court proceedings continued on Wednesday in the case against six former public officials who stand accused of “causing death through negligence” for their roles in the sequence of events which led to the collapse the Isias hotel in the southeastern Turkish city of Adiyaman, which killed 72 people, 35 of whom were Cypriots.

The hotel collapsed during the first of two powerful earthquakes which hit the southeast of Turkey on