British teenager stabbed in Turkish resort
A British teenager is in intensive care in the popular Turkish resort of Marmaris after being knifed 17 times.
According to the reports in the Sun, Dwayne Ward, 17, was found dumped in a small public gardens, stripped and with wounds to his throat, chest, groin, legs and back.
The Sun said a police report revealed the victim, from Middlesbrough, had described how he had been having fun while out drinking with his older brother and had kissed a Turkish girl in a bar.
"I went to another bar and that was when they hit me in the head with a hard object. I don’t remember the rest," he is reported as saying.
The brothers had been on holiday with their mother staying at the Ali Baba Hotel.
Two local men, aged 24 and 26, have been arrested in connection with the incident, which happened in the early hours on Tuesday.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office said it was supporting the family.
The attack comes in the same week as two other British holidaymakers died in separate drowning incidents at beaches in Turkey’s Olundeniz district.
It is not yet known how the men drowned.
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Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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