Search continues of missing Anadolu news agency reporter

Search operation of missing reporter Abdulkadir Nisanci, working for the Anadolu news agency, continues for the 4th day. The reporter was swept by an avalanche in northern Turkey, as Anadolu informed. He slid down the hill when the mass of snow he stepped on broke loose at Derebasi Curves area near Bayburt. He was covering ongoing road construction works in the area. The search involving 200 persons, divers, helicopter, remotely piloted aircraft, is complicated with the strong current watercourse running through at the bottom of crevice where the journalist fell. The mobile phone of Nisanci is not functionning. The province governor made a statemement refuting the claims that a call had been made with the journalist's phone.