The incident of an elderly couple being killed and their house set on fire in Elazığ has been clarified.

The incident took place on 08.09.2026 in the Ürünlü hamlet of Koçyiğitler village in Elazığ's Karakoçan district. According to the information obtained, a fire broke out in a house at night. Upon notice, fire brigade and gendarmerie teams were dispatched to the scene. The teams entered the house and removed the dead bodies of Ağa (79) and Hayriye Üykü (72), who had 7 children.

With the intervention of the teams, the fire was taken under control and extinguished. The dead body of the couple was taken to the morgue for autopsy. As a result of the autopsy performed at the Malatya Forensic Medicine Institute, bullet marks were detected on the bodies of the Üykü couple. While it was evaluated that the house was set on fire after the Üykü couple was shot and killed, it was learned that the gold and valuable items belonging to Hayriye Üykü were missing.

Within the scope of the investigation carried out by the gendarmerie teams under the coordination of Karakoçan Public Prosecutor Ahmet Burak Kara, the suspect H.Ç., who disguised the incident as a fire, fled to Istanbul with the stolen gold and tried to sell it at the jeweler, was identified from the airport X-Ray images and caught.

H.Ç., one of the suspects whose procedures were completed at the District Gendarmerie Command, was referred to Karakoçan Courthouse. The suspect, who was brought before the court, was arrested and sent to prison.

The investigations at the Üykü couple's house have ended. Thereupon, the inside of the house was viewed for the first time.

While it was seen that the house, which was severely damaged in the fire, became unusable, the traces of the incident were reflected in the images.