Turkey: Disco roof collapse kills at least one

A rock fall collapsed the roof of a hillside disco in an Anatolian tourist resort, killing at least one person and injuring four others, Turkish authorities said today.

Rescue workers using dogs were trying to reach four or five other people believed to be trapped under the debris of Harem Disco, which collapsed last night near the town of Urgup in Nevsehir province.

The area is known as Cappadocia, famous for the mushroomed-shaped rock formations in which Byzantine Greeks carved subterranean cities.

Formed by gas bubbling through volcanic ash, the rock formations were eroded by winds over millions of years to form cones, domes and “fairy chimneys”, or basalt boulders balancing atop thin shafts of volcanic rocks.