Bicyclist killed: 'Not an accident but a murder'

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An unidentified driver using the automobile with license plate 34 GNE 745 hit Doğanay Güzelgün, who was one of the bicyclists riding as a group on the Kadıköy-Bostancı coastal road early in the morning. 

Güzelgün was heavily injured after the clash and he lost his life in the hospital he was taken to. He was 51 years old. 

The driver who hit him escaped on foot. Someone else who came to the spot and claimed responsibility for the crash was taken into custody. 

However the friends of the bicyclist, said that the person using the vehicle that hit Güzelgün, and the person who was taken into custody was not the same person. They also informed the police that there were materials inside the vehicle used for consumption of drugs. "This is not a simple traffic accident but a murder," they said. 

Güzelgün's friends later went to the Bostancı Police Station, where they keep waiting at the moment. 

Two murders in two days

Only yesterday and again in İstanbul, 19-year-old Enes T. who was driving an automobile very fast in Başakşehir hit 17-year-old Atakan Çağlar riding a bicycle, causing his death. 

(HA/PE)