Doctor accidentally shoots himself dead during wedding

A doctor has died after he accidentally shot himself in the head as he checked to see why the weapon had stopped working when he was using it to celebrate during a wedding.

Doctor Hasan Akdemir, 39, ended up shooting himself in the head during the wedding near the central Turkish city of Konya.

He was rushed by ambulance to a local hospital but doctors were unable to save him.

Police have launched an investigation into the incident amidst early reports that the gun misfired.

Eyewitnesses say Dr Akdemir pulled the gun from his belt and started firing shots into the air during the wedding celebration in the town of Kozagac on the edge of the city.

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The gun apparently misfired while the doctor was holding it in his hand and he was shot in the head as he checked it.

An ambulance was called to rush him to the Atasehir State Hospital, but despite doctors’ best efforts, he could not be saved.

Konya is the seventh biggest city in Turkey with a thriving economy that has seen it ranked among Turkey’s booming Anatolian Tiger cities.

The city contains the tomb of the 13th century Sufi mystic Rumi whose followers established the Mevlevi Sufi order of Islam in the city and became known as the Whirling Dervishes for their dance-based form of meditation.

– Australscope