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Computer servers of Sakarya University, a public research university located in the city of Adapazarı, the capital of the western province of Sakarya, have allegedly been used to mine cryptocurrency, daily Habertürk reported on May 7.

Train services between Istanbul and Ankara were suspended after a construction accident which damaged the power lines of the high speed rail between Turkey's two largest provinces on Aug. 12.

A child laborer in the northwestern province of Sakarya was hospitalized after taking a radioactive material home on the supposition that it was a type of prayer bead. 

The 17-year-old construction worker, identified only as Eyüp B., took the piece of iridium-192 home, subjecting himself and his family to radioactivity, daily Habertürk reported on March 14.

A substance that caused panic in the northwestern province of Sakarya after a local boy displayed an allergic reaction might have been caused by a battery rather than a radioactive material, the province's governor has said.

The discovery of a radioactive substance stirred panic in the northwestern province of Sakarya on Oct. 20, as a child was hospitalized due to purple-colored spots that appeared on his body. 

The 16-year-old child, identified only as Eyüp B., was hospitalized after playing with a metal object he found in a construction site in the Arifiye district.

Turkey’s sprawling high-speed railway network will also boost train station construction across the country, as a total of 21 new stations are planned at routes through which trains pass.

The high-speed railway (YHT) service between Kocaeli and Ankara was canceled after a crane and a container fell onto the railway line late Aug. 7.

Due to strong winds, a crane – approximately weighing 200 tons – fell onto the railway line used by the YHT service in the Körfez district of Kocaeli, resulting in the suspension of the YHT service at 5:00 p.m. on Aug. 7.

A train station built as part of the construction works for the high-speed railway partially collapsed near Arifiye in the western province of Sakarya on May 29.

Six workers were injured, including three in a serious condition, state-run Anadolu Agency reported. The initial reports claiming that some workers were trapped under the rubble were soon refuted.

A train station built as part of the construction works for the high-speed railway partially collapsed near Arifiye in the western province of Sakarya on May 29.

At least five workers were injured, including one in a serious condition, after being trapped under the rubble, state-run Anadolu Agency reported.