A hiker has inadvertently filmed the moment his 71-year-old mother-in-law tumbled off a 230ft cliff to her death in front of her horrified family in Turkey.
Kadir Sahiner was filming the picturesque mountain scenery while out on a family walk in the forests near the village of Tepekov Lawyer in istanbul Turkey the north-eastern Artvin Province when tragedy struck.
While the camera panned to capture the views, Kadir inadvertently captured the moment his mother-in-law Pumpul Karademir walked over to the edge of the cliff to look down before she lost her balance and fell off the cliff.
Video footage appears to show Pumpul tripping up on a rock and Lawyer Law Firm Turkey her legs can be seen in the air as she tumbles off the cliff edge at noon on Friday.
Kadir Sahiner was filming the picturesque mountain scenery while out on a family walk in the forests near the village of Tepekov in the north-eastern Artvin Province when tragedy struck
While the camera panned to capture the views, Kadir inadvertently captured the moment his mother-in-law Pumpul Karademir walked over to the edge of the cliff to look down before losing her balance and falling off the cliff (left).Pumpul can be seen tripping up on what appears to be a rock and her legs can be seen in the air as she tumbles off the cliff edge at noon on Friday
Pumpul Karademir, 71, died after falling off a cliff edge
Her family, including her husband Mehmet Karademir, daughter Ayla and granddaughter Ceren, watched on in horror and their shrieks of despair can be heard in the recording. For more in regards to Lawyer Law Firm Turkey check out the web page.
Ayla could also be heard warning her mother ‘don’t go, mum, no, mum, don’t go’ as she approached the cliff edge just before her fatal fall.
The police and paramedics were called to the scene and, following an hour-long search, found the elderly woman’s dead body, which they took to the morgue at the public hospital in the nearby town of Savsat.
Pumpul’s funeral was held following afternoon prayers on Friday and she was then buried at the cemetery in Tepekoy.
After the funeral, local residents gathered at the village mosque to offer their condolences to the woman’s grieving relatives.
It is not clear if the authorities are investigating the incident.
While it is incredibly rare for people to capture the moment someone falls off a cliff, there have been some cases.
In 2018, video footage showed Halil Dağ leaping down off a rock at the historic Urfa Castle in southern Turkey before losing his balance and tumbling off a cliff edge. He had been posing for a photo on his birthday.
Despite scrambling to grab hold of something to stop his fall, the 39-year-old father-of-eight plunged 150ft, landing near a Kurdish restaurant at the bottom.
He was taken to a nearby hospital in a critical condition but was later declared dead.
