Fifteen-year-old woodworking apprentice Muhammed Kendirci died in Şanlıurfa, Turkey, five days after two co-workers, including Habip Aksoy, allegedly overpowered him, tied his hands, removed his pants, and forcibly inserted a high-pressure air compressor hose into his rectum as a “joke,” causing catastrophic internal organ damage.
The incident is the latest in a grim pattern of fatal workplace pranks involving compressed-air hoses: in 2023, 16-year-old Motilal Sahu in India died after a co-worker shoved an air hose into his anus at a food-processing factory, and in 2017, 17-year-old Brazilian car-wash worker Wesner Moreira da Silva was killed the same way, with his attackers later convicted of rape and murder and sentenced to over 12 years in prison.
Aksoy was initially released on probation but later rearrested as authorities investigate the Turkish case.
